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More on breathalyzers: Only open source forensics can be trusted?
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:48:34 -0400
Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/2005/06/07/dui-cases-tossed/ -------- Original Message --------Subject: Re: [Politech] DUI cases tossed out because of closed-source breathalyzer [ip]
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:15:24 -0400 From: dan () geer org To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> CC: politech () politechbot com, carrier () cerias purdue edu, dan () geer org Declan McCullagh writes: | | Note: DUI cases thrown out for lack of breathalyzer source code | | Remark: relevant to voting machines? | Actually, relevant to everything that promises evidentiary-grade data -- take Encase, for example. I'd suggest my former colleague Brian Carrier's paper where he argued that only open source forensics can have validity. http://www.atstake.com/research/reports/acrobat/atstake_opensource_forensics.pdf --dan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: radar guns too?? DUI cases tossed out because of closed-sourcebreathalyzer [ip] Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:27:18 -0700 From: To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> References: <42A65D86.70800 () well com> ask your learned list members if this discovery would work on the innards and source code of radar guns! That's a bigger problem for me...... a non-disclosed-name inquiring mind..... -------- Original Message --------Subject: Re: [Politech] DUI cases tossed out because of closed-source breathalyzer [ip]
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:48:10 -0400 From: Al Cabal <al.cabal () earthlink net> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Oh God, I'm loving this. His fingerprints (and Cheney's) are all over 911, the Downing Street Memo is clear evidence for impeachment, he's getting his ditch ploughed by gay leather stud James "Bulldog" Guckert in the White House, and now a pack of drunk drivers might be on the brink of voiding that patently bogus "election" that Kerry so graciously threw last year. This is why I no longer use LSD. In these times, it would be redundant. >From Hell, Alan Cabal _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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