This is good news. If only our COMELEC is not so hard-headed and would implement our laws on independent review of the source code of the election programs (RA-9369 Section 12), then our elections would be truly transparent.
~Pablo Manalastas~ On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Robert Locke <[email protected]> wrote: > "Voting machine maker Sequoia announced on Tuesday that they plan to > release the source code for their new optical-scan voting > machine<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/sequoia/>. > The source code will be released in November for public review. The company > claims the announcement is unrelated to the recent release of the source > code<http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/2236252/Open-Source-Voting-Software-Concept-Released> > for > a prototype voting machine by the Open Source Digital Voting > Foundation<http://osdv.org/>. > According to a VP quoted in the press release, 'Security through obfuscation > and secrecy is not security.'" > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/1953223/Sequoia-To-Publish-Source-Code-For-Voting-Machines > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/sequoia/ > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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