Browser Appliance

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Summary

The Browser Appliance is a TTV device which election officials can use for dedicated access to browser based TTV Components, with all the application configuration and security settings pre- populated and unmodifiable.

In other words, this application interface has all of the look, feel, and user interaction experience of any World Wide Web browser; however, its capabilities and utility are restricted to the EDM services it is accessing “across the cloud.”

To achieve this, the Browser Appliance uses the election officials’ existing PC hardware, but not any of the software or data stored on that PC (e.g., no other ancillary software, applets, bookmarks, cookies, or utilities).

Instead, the Browser Appliance is a “bootable system image” (2) delivered on a write-once medium such as CD-ROM media. Use of the Browser Appliance begins by starting (“booting”) the PC hardware with such a media (disk). This action results in the user presented with what appears to be typical Web browser application experience, but pre-configured for access to the EDM Services in a manner that is error-free and higher assurance (with respect to software errors and “malware.”)

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Further details

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