Researchers show Diebold voting machines unsecure, citizens shocked

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Matt S @ Sep 14th 2006 4:25AM

All OSes are susceptible to viruses, but WinCE3 is OLD. Like last century old. WinMo 5 is so much better. Heck, they could have used WinXP embedded, removed all the unnecessary components (thus fitting it into a few dozen megs), and made a much more secure system. Heck, I doubt virus writers are even targeting WinCE3 these days...
It might be that they're cheap and didn't want to pay for new licenses, since they already probably had the WinCE3 licenses sitting around...

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Lawrence Ricci @ Sep 24th 2006 5:50PM

Just a note about Wince- Any software that does not support strong authentication is susceptible to inserted code- e.g. virus. This includes Linux, VXworks, UNIX, Palm, Symbian and QNX- all have had virus/worm attacks.

Some of these systems, including Windows CE, can and have been extended to include strong authentication. Diebold did not bother with this effort.

Interestingly, with more than 50,000,000 installed Windows CE and Pocket PC systems, there has not been even one example of a self-inserting virus in the wild.

Lawrence Ricci
www.EmbeddedInsider.com

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