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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced (calckey.world)

submitted 4 months ago by tek@calckey.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Simply, you can't. I'm personally all for an open source alternative for electronic voting. I can bank online, but not vote online. I'd trust an open source online voting platform more than I'd trust poll workers to not skew some votes. I'd also like to be able to track my vote and ensure it was cast for the person I voted for.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Banking is completely different from voting from a security point of view. None of the parties in a bank transaction are anonymous, and there are numerous ways to retry or roll back a transaction. Computerized voting is more like crypto currency. 😝

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Computerized voting is more like crypto currency. 😝

Like it, but worse

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

you can't have secret ballot and have a secure, auditible online vote. One of the problems of social media is it has created enemy lists for authoritarian states.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You kind of can. Depends how fully auditable you want, but you can have cryptographically anonymized entries, that (I believe?) could even allow the original voter to track their vote, without enabling anyone else to track the vote back to the voter.

It's a different project, but GNU Taler have some interesting work on anonymized but not forgeable money transactions.

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

The issue with online voting, no matter what you do, is that someone can force you under threat of violence to vote for a specific candidate, and watch to make sure you do it. Complete privacy in the voting booth is paramount to ensuring that everyone can vote freely.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Biggest vulnreability for online voting stands behind voter