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PaulSnow t1_itrgk17 wrote

Reply to comment by TheOfficialACM in I am the co-author behind ACM’s TechBrief on Election Security: Risk-limiting Audits. Ask me anything about election security! by TheOfficialACM

Hence require open source. It isn't about being commercially viable, if not providing an open source product means it isn't commercially viable.

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TheOfficialACM OP t1_itrlcw4 wrote

Here's a more concise way to put it: I would prefer if we did not have trade secrets in elections. Let the vendors copyright and/or patent their stuff, but the source code should be open to public inspection. This isn't about security, per se, as much as it's about transparency. If you want to get nerdier about it, it's also about publicly verifiable reproducible builds, which has ramifications for security and transparency.

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PaulSnow t1_itrmgg9 wrote

In this case, transparency is security (more review) and verifiable reproducible builds is a given.

[in addition, ] Open source hardware is a critical component here.

Edit: *Added "in addition"

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