It is well past time for laws that require all mission-critical software to have publicly published source code. Flying planes, driving cars, and using voting machines whose software hasn't been publicly analyzed is a dangerous (and deadly) policy choice. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers …
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Requiring public disclosure would not only allow concerned programmers to find problems, but it might also create incentives for good software development at corporations because they know they have to publish the code, and if it is poor quality, their reputation suffers.
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Literally that very thing would have been discovered if the source code was public. Everyone would have known they dd that, and more importantly, they probably _wouldn't_ have tried to do that if they knew that everyone would see that as soon as the code was made public.
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A requirement to publish software isn't just about finding bugs. It's also about finding out what that software has in it and ensuring that it's not doing something it shouldn't be doing.
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