Open Source for Justice

I agree with Bruce that this case is potentially huge. If you don't have access to how a system works, how can it be used to indict you?

Comments

[Federalist X]

It isn't "potentially huge". It has been around. Defense bar gets lazy after awhile. Likely promoted because of the increasingly stringent DUI rules.

Don't forget due process standards are different in criminal v. civil cases.

[yep]

I agree.

The strange thing is that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement just spent $2 MILLION on new high-tech breath-alcohol machines from the same company knowing that the company is not going to give the source code for this machine either. Pretty fucking stupid...

Source:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/seminole/orl-dui0905sep09,0,6737731.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-seminole

Here's Florida Department of Law Enforcement's saying that CMI, the company that owns the source code, should not have to produce the source code...
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-myword1405sep14,0,693398.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines

[yep]

By the way, Federalist X posted while I was typing... this is huge deal.

[Diebold_hack]

On a related note...
http://news.google.com/news?q=Diebold+hack