I remember the CEO of Information Services JSC (the de-facto Bulgarian monopolist in governement software procurement), prof. Mihail Konstantinov, making the ridiculous claim on TV that "We can't release the source code of the elections counting software. Anyone who has the source can hack into the system, even children know that. If you don't understand that, you should tear your diploma". Glad to see that morons such as him will no longer have the final say.
Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
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Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#22I remember the CEO of Information Services JSC (the de-facto Bulgarian monopolist in governement software procurement), prof. Mihail Konstantinov, making the ridiculous claim on TV that "We can't release the source code of the elections counting software. Anyone who has the source can hack into the system, even children know that. If you don't understand that, you should tear your diploma". Glad to see that morons su…
Actually, we made sure that the e-voting provisions in the new electoral code explicitly require the whole software to be open source. Especially for voting this is mandatory, otherwise there is no trust.
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#23I remember the CEO of Information Services JSC (the de-facto Bulgarian monopolist in governement software procurement), prof. Mihail Konstantinov, making the ridiculous claim on TV that "We can't release the source code of the elections counting software. Anyone who has the source can hack into the system, even children know that. If you don't understand that, you should tear your diploma". Glad to see that morons su…
Whichever subject Prof. Konstantinov is an expert in, it's not cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle.
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#24I remember the CEO of Information Services JSC (the de-facto Bulgarian monopolist in governement software procurement), prof. Mihail Konstantinov, making the ridiculous claim on TV that "We can't release the source code of the elections counting software. Anyone who has the source can hack into the system, even children know that. If you don't understand that, you should tear your diploma". Glad to see that morons su…
Actually, we made sure that the e-voting provisions in the new electoral code explicitly require the whole software to be open source. Especially for voting this is mandatory, otherwise there is no trust.
That's awesome to hear. Many thanks for your efforts :)
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#25I remember the CEO of Information Services JSC (the de-facto Bulgarian monopolist in governement software procurement), prof. Mihail Konstantinov, making the ridiculous claim on TV that "We can't release the source code of the elections counting software. Anyone who has the source can hack into the system, even children know that. If you don't understand that, you should tear your diploma". Glad to see that morons su…
Whichever subject Prof. Konstantinov is an expert in, it's not cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle .
He is a professor in Mathematics, and is often invited in popular TV shows as a supposed "expert" on elections, software, and politics in general.
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#26Out of context, this may sound like mildly cheerful news. It is not. Bulgaria is a doomed shithole, which has for many decades been ran by a murderous communist mafia, controlling every aspect of the economy and the legal system, while licking many foreign asses with equal dexterity (US / NATO, Russian, European, Ukrainian, Saudi, Israeli, Turkish - everyone whose ass is worth licking, Bulgarian "politicians" do it i…
Gosh, you people think I'm kidding about this! You think I'm sketching a tasteless comic or something full of foul language just for kicks.. If anything, I've put it too kindly! It is A LOT worse than this.
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#27I remember the CEO of Information Services JSC (the de-facto Bulgarian monopolist in governement software procurement), prof. Mihail Konstantinov, making the ridiculous claim on TV that "We can't release the source code of the elections counting software. Anyone who has the source can hack into the system, even children know that. If you don't understand that, you should tear your diploma". Glad to see that morons su…
Actually, we made sure that the e-voting provisions in the new electoral code explicitly require the whole software to be open source. Especially for voting this is mandatory, otherwise there is no trust.
And how do you ensure that the actual deployed code doesn't differ from the one posted on GitHub?
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whichever subject Prof. Konstantinov is an expert in, it's not cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle .
He is a professor in Mathematics, and is often invited in popular TV shows as a supposed "expert" on elections, software, and politics in general.
Well, at least the TV shows invite mathematicians, that's not a bad start.
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, we made sure that the e-voting provisions in the new electoral code explicitly require the whole software to be open source. Especially for voting this is mandatory, otherwise there is no trust.
And how do you ensure that the actual deployed code doesn't differ from the one posted on GitHub?
From the electoral code, rough translation: "Independent observers are allowed to verify whether the digital fingerprint of the system in the data centers matches the publicly announced one"
Re: Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
#30Out of context, this may sound like mildly cheerful news. It is not. Bulgaria is a doomed shithole, which has for many decades been ran by a murderous communist mafia, controlling every aspect of the economy and the legal system, while licking many foreign asses with equal dexterity (US / NATO, Russian, European, Ukrainian, Saudi, Israeli, Turkish - everyone whose ass is worth licking, Bulgarian "politicians" do it i…
That is irrelevant to the topic. Yes, there are big problems, but they are not fixed overnight. They are fixed slowly and patiently by introducing ever more transparency and safeguards.