I agree with your analogy of open-source to the way that votes are currently counted. I think also that it is important that the binary running is the same one as the source code provided for the public actually compiles as. Maybe there should be a way, at the machine, to do a md5sum of the running software, and compare with previously snail-mailed md5sum or something? It sounds like a great way to discredit open-source..."Whoa look at that huge back door, it's the same program name as the program the open-source compiled!"
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I agree with your analogy of open-source to the way that votes are currently counted. I think also that it is important that the binary running is the same one as the source code provided for the public actually compiles as. Maybe there should be a way, at the machine, to do a md5sum of the running software, and compare with previously snail-mailed md5sum or something? It sounds like a great way to discredit open-source..."Whoa look at that huge back door, it's the same program name as the program the open-source compiled!"