The code should be open source anyway anyone who can read code should be able to "audit" it and as far as im concerned the databases after every election should be preserved and made public to everyone as well. Also there are 4 auditing agencies there. They only go after Cyber Ninjas because that's the one the media is trying to use as the weak link.
It would be a terrible idea for them to be open source.
Open source only works when the value of using an exploit is less than the value of reporting and patching the exploit to the individual or group that discovers it.
Thats horse shit. For one thing most of the people that contribute to open source projects do it for non monetary reasons. As soon as you let in the corporate contributors code quality goes down. Look at how microsoft and redhat are destroying the linux kernel and the value of getting an exploit into that is nearly priceless. The cia had to literally position trannies to do hostile takeovers of open source projects so they could inject bugs into them. Obfuscation by definition is not security.
People are more likely to keep zero-days hidden in election software so that they can just exploit it and get their politician in office.
That would only be true if only one person or group found the exploit and could guarantee no one else had found it.
Or multiple groups wish to profit from it individually.
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