Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 4, 2007 @09:49AM from the and-it-ain't-pretty dept.

Nonillion writes "New Jersey attorney Evan M. Levow was finally able to get an order from the Supreme Court of New Jersey forcing the manufacturer of the popular Draeger AlcoTest 7110 to reveal the source code. Levow turned the code over to experts, Base One Technologies, to analyze. Initially, Base One found that, contrary to Draeger's protestations that the code was proprietary, the code consisted mostly of general algorithms: 'That is, the code is not really unique or proprietary.' In other words, the 'trade secrets' claim which manufacturers were hiding behind was completely without merit." Following up an earlier discussion here, the state of Minnesota has (without explanation) missed a deadline to turn over the code for a different breathalyzer.

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Re:"code" is probably in the hardware by mycall · 2007-09-04 18:43 · Score: 0, Troll

What most people don't know is that you can refuse to take the breathalyzer test. Doing so gives you an automatic offense but doesn't give you a DUI. Same goes with jury nullification. They want to keep you dumb and scared and thus a bad citizen. Hypocrates.