open source necessary condition for voter confidence

Posted Aug 20, 2004 17:59 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: open source necessary condition for voter confidence by jabby
Parent article: Will 'controlled open source' software take over election work? (NewsForge)

You should realise though, that the "software" is the whole stack, not only the the voting software itself.

Backdoors cdan be added in the underlying OS. Quite easily.

But you can go even further: What about the firmware of the CPU? The firmware of the BIOS? The firmware of the disk controller?