If we can't audit our nation's vote-counting software because the company claims it is proprietary information, I'm totally cool with that. But obviously the election has to be thrown out in whole for that very reason. I see no room for compromise on this point.
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Security audits and NDAs are standard practice in software that are high level targets of fraud. I certainly would like to see a good team of forensic developers get their hands on the code
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Something something volkswagen something emissions...
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1/ I'll confidently put my knowledge of software and software industry practices up against yours. The reason there's a term called "open source" is that most software is "closed source". Special cases aside, it's rare to be allowed to read closed source software's source code.
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2/ Further, audits rarely are about just certain hardware or software; they're commonly about whole systems, including the human parts. The details of audit best practices depend upon details of the systems. Voting machines do very simple and replicable things. So an audit ...
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Look up validation protocols
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You don't have to the involve the software to understand its power. Do you recall VW and the car's software would detect when hooked to an emissions machine and operate differently under test?
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Imagine election software doing something different based on date, how fast votes are cast, or quantity of votes. If you can dream up a parameter, software can use it.
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