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The State of the Software Q-2 Quarterly Update
It's time for me to do catch-up on show-and-tell of the various components of open source software that are available in software repositories. This is as much an update on VoteStream as a recap of software progress we periodically provide.
No "Security By Obscurity" for Voting, Please
I have to confess to being appalled by the number of times recently that I have heard people talk about potential benefits of "security by obscurity" for voting systems. It's one of those bad old ideas that just won't die: if you hide the inner workings (source code) of a complex device (a voting system), that makes it harder for an adversary to break (hack, steal elections).
Open Source and Disclosed Source: Both Good, but Different
Well, the issue of "source code disclosure" just keeps coming back at us. Here is the latest variant that needs some de-confusion: how are open source practices different from proprietary-systems vendors who voluntarily choose to disclose the source code of their software?