More on breathalyzers: Only open source forensics can be trusted?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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:
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 | Note: DUI cases thrown out for lack of breathalyzer source code
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 | 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

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