The Blue Screen of Felony Convictions
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| It’s high time that individuals say “enough” and stop allowing their rights
| to be gradually eroded. Liberty-threatening software must be open source.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/09/the_blue_screen_of_felony_conv.html
This should also go open source...
Critique of Louis I. Rovner's Polygraph Examination and Testimony in Ohio v.
Sharma
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| The trial is now over. The defendant, Sahil Sharma of New York City, waived
| his right to a jury trial, and according to a press account, Judge Hunter
| acquitted him at least in part based upon the polygraph results.
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https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1187845990
Related:
Secret Breathalyzer Software Finally Revealed
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| As I’ve indicated in previous posts, defense attorneys for years have been
| trying to discover the software source code used by manufacturers of various
| breathalyzer models.
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http://www.duiblog.com/2007/09/04/secret-breathalyzer-software-finally-revealed/
Police Blotter: Defendant wins breathalyzer source code
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| What became central to the dispute was whether the source code was owned by
| the state or CMI, the maker of the Intoxilyzer.
|
| Minnesota's original bid proposal that CMI responded to says that "all right,
| title, and interest in all copyrightable material" that CMI creates as part
| of the contract "will be the property of the state." The bid proposal also
| says CMI must provide "information" to be used by "attorneys representing
| individuals charged with crimes in which a test with the proposed instrument
| is part of the evidence," which seems to include source code.
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http://news.com.com/Police+Blotter+DUI+defendant+wins+breathalyzer+source+code/2100-7348_3-6201632.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
The Future of Elections: Open Source Voting
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| But how would you feel if Microsoft Windows was powering the voting booth in
| which you were to select important elected officials? Would you, knowing of
| Microsoft's past security record, feel confident that using this OS and not
| being allowed to inspect the code, feel safe knowing that these machines
| could very well help to dictate the future of your perspective countries?
| Don't feel guilty, I don't really like it either.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=&task=view&id=2610
A Publicly Owned and Controlled Voting System Ensuring Transparency and
Oversight by the People or Nothing
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| Open source code optical scanners begin to restore some of that transparency
| which would be eliminated by private vendors who bar the public from access
| to any source code information. The advantage of open source software is that
| it is available for public inspection by anyone with some level of computer
| literacy, not just those designated to see the escrowed source code pursuant
| to a non disclosure agreement.
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_070729_a_publicly_owned_and.htm
Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature
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| Microsoft’s proposed change to state law would effectively render
| our current requirements for escrow and the ability for independent
| review of source code in the event of disputes completely meaningless
| - and with it the protections the public fought so hard for.
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http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html
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| "Nineteen machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a
| blue screen and messages about an "illegal operation" or a "fatal
| exception error."
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| "Especially with this blue-screen problem, you don't know whether it's
| the printer drivers, you don't know whether it's Diebold's own code or
| whether it's Windows"
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http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6257
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
|
| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
| a complex environment]...
|
| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
|
| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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