Comment by lblume
16 hours ago
Could you not compile them on the voting machines itself? But yes, there is always going to be some level of trust involved, and the bar for manipulation seems to be lower than re: manual counting.
16 hours ago
Could you not compile them on the voting machines itself? But yes, there is always going to be some level of trust involved, and the bar for manipulation seems to be lower than re: manual counting.
Turtles all the way down. Can you trust your compiler?
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
This problem can be solved by the bootstrappable builds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41368835
But do you trust the processor? Which can also be backdoored internally to start rewriting instructions on the fly?
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