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Fully agreed. The key thing with closed Vs. open source isn't simply the ability to find defects (design & bugs), but also right now election officials/securit
by Someone1234 6y ago
Fully agreed.
The key thing with closed Vs. open source isn't simply the ability to find defects (design & bugs), but also right now election officials/security experts in some cases aren't allowed to verify election software per the software licenses! That's an untenable position to be in.
Open source isn't some panacea, but it puts you into that position where "verify" is even conceptually possible. I still believe we need paper backups and random audits, but we can do multiple things at once and should.
- ghettoimp 6y agoI'm a free software fan, but I don't see that open source matters here. How do you know the machine is running the program whose source code you're looking at, instead of some other program that looks superficially like it? If a machine produces convincing evidence of what it has done, e.g., a print-out that (1) the voter can meaningfully check before depositing, and that (2) is audited with at least spot checks or formal recounts later, why does it matter whether it is open or closed source?