> This finding underscores the importance of making source code widely available for full public scrutiny before, rather than after an election.
And you are of course sure, when you cast your vote into a black box, that the correct source is running, that the compiler was not compromised [1], that the hardware can be trusted... And suppose you had a team of experts certify with certainty (Somehow! Currently impossible, as far as I know. Especially versus adversaries that include global superpowers such as the US, Russia, and China) one year ago that the machines were working as specified... is that still true? Or were they replaced with identical looking, compromised machines?
Having the source code available is laughably inadequate.
And you are of course sure, when you cast your vote into a black box, that the correct source is running, that the compiler was not compromised [1], that the hardware can be trusted... And suppose you had a team of experts certify with certainty (Somehow! Currently impossible, as far as I know. Especially versus adversaries that include global superpowers such as the US, Russia, and China) one year ago that the machines were working as specified... is that still true? Or were they replaced with identical looking, compromised machines?
Having the source code available is laughably inadequate.
[1] https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html