15 Sep
2006
15 Sep
'06
5:45 a.m.
On 15/09/06 10:58 +0530, jtd wrote: <snip>
FOSS can ensure that the tech flaws are visible and therefore correctable. Like thevoting machine fiasco in the USA http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ts-paper.pdf
Could you show me how any random person can verify the code running on an electronic voting machine? Code on disk need not be the same as what was verified. Code which is in memory need not be the same as on disk.
'Reflections on trusting trust' is a good paper to read. How do you find that back door?
Devdas Bhagat