Maryland Plans Code Review for Voting Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 7, 2003 @03:12AM from the refactoring dept.

asmithmd1 writes "We already knew Diebold software is insecure, now the Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Governor of Maryland has asked SAIC to review the software in Diebold voting machines. Diebold has graciously allowed SAIC access to their proprietary code. Why isn't this code open source by law?" In a related story, a trade show for closed-source electronic voting systems is doing their best to keep critics out. Update: 08/07 15:23 GMT by M : Diebold's website security is less than outstanding.

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In this case, OSS is bad! by borgdows · 2003-08-07 03:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

If the code had to be opensource, SCO would sue the voters for using some of their IP included "important portions of the voting system" and would require Darl MacBride for President as fair indemnity for the violation of SCO intellectual property!