E-Voting Company Reveals Their Source Code

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E-Voting Company Reveals Their Source Code

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 7, 2004 @03:43AM from the vote-of-confidence dept.

Kodi writes "VoteHere has decided to release their source code so that other people will have confidence in it (MSNBC, press release.) It's definitely NOT open source (unlike OVC) but it's still a step in the right direction."

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Re:Obscured? by CrazyDwarf · 2004-04-07 03:55 · Score: 0, Troll

It seems to me to be an open challenge to the computer world. Sounds almost like they're saying, "We're so good, we'll give you our source code to prove you can't hack us..."

Uhm... maybe that's why they don't want anyone from certain countries looking at it. Osama and his guys get it, then hack in and poof, landslide victory for liberals in next election.

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Re:Obscured? by mr.capaneus · 2004-04-07 04:04 · Score: 0, Troll

Osama and his guys get it, then hack in and poof, landslide victory for liberals in next election.
Are you kidding? Osama and pals want the Republicans in power. Their ultimate dream is a holy war with Islam pitted against Christianity. The Religious Conservatives in power in the US would be a gift from Allah for them. The last thing they want is a bunch of peace loving hippies in control.
License clause by srhuston · 2004-04-07 04:33 · Score: 0, Troll

I like this particular line from the license agreement:

3(j) Licensee shall not use the Software or Documentation for purposes for which it is not designed or intended.

So, if you find some way to hack it, and let them know, were you using the software or documentation for purposes for which it was intended? I wouldn't think so.

It's obvious I'm no legal buff, maybe this is the right (only?) way to word what they want, but that seems like a nice way to slap a lawsuit on someone who proves the software is flawed. "We didn't mean for people to be able to do that!"

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Re:First Glance by Trolling4Dollars · 2004-04-07 05:25 · Score: 0, Troll

Funny thing about that cuntflap... We *nix users make money too. And the amount we are capable of earning is justified too. People like NineNine are basically just Homer Chimpsons who push buttons and think they know how to work with computers. When crunch time comes and there's a problem they can't cope with, they fob it off to someone else instead of having cajones and fixing it themselves.
There are plenty of Windows folks who REALLY know about computers, but then again... they ALSO know Unix/Linux and maybe VMS, or even Macintosh. They also realize the intrinsic values of each OS and utilize them where needed. And they don't have attitudes about being know-it-alls like that fucking goon NineNine. He only knows enough about computers to throw up some lameass porn site (for a better site, go to http://sublimedirectory.com) and whore himself out for more money than he's worth. NineNine isn't a businessman, he's a fucking snakeoil salesman. And frankly, he needs to shut the hell up.
His main gripe is that if he can't deal with it to further his chiquanery (because he doesn't have the intellect to actually learn about computers instead of pushing buttons and using WYSIWYG editors), then it must suck. He's not into computers because they interest him. He's into them because he's found a way to use them to cheat people out of money. He's just a con artist. Fucking lameass bitch.

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