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Slashdot has an article about a Florida court hearing an argument that breathalyzer manufacturers should have to make public their source code so that a defendant may challenge the source code’s accuracy. If succesful the defense may lead to a large number of similar defenses including all sorts of computer based forensic machines and possibly any other computer driven machine that is used by the public at large (ATM’s, voting machines, credit card terminals, etc…)
I for one hope that the court decides that the breathylizer manufacturers must open their source code to scrutiny, and by extension every other tool in “The Man’s” belt. A free and open world is a better one!
