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I've seen a lot of people talking about open source
and free code
I've come to talk about code
but not exactly about computer programs
I've come to talk about a more important code
That is our constitution
The brazilian constitution
I don't know if everyone knows it but
The voting machines of the TSE (superior electoral court)
From the hardware to it's most upper stack
Everything is closed source
If anyone had the opportunity of watching a movie
a HBO documentary called Hacking Democracy
The movie basically shows an attack
From several possible angles
to the voting machine manufactured by a corporation called Dielbold
Fact is that Dielbold, which lost several contracts with the US
Because it could not, and it lied several times about it
As proved by an anonymous ftp
that was found holding their source code on the internet
That they cannot build safe voting machines
On reality, for anyone who has a background in IT Security
Knows that you should never trust
On someone who advocates security through obscurity
That comes since an article from 1880
Fact is that the brazilian voting machine is completely
closed source. Completely.
This is equivalent to you going to a voting booth
and there is someone behind a curtain
and you tell that person what your vote is
and that person places your vote in the box
There is some movements on the internet
I invite all of you to search about it
I have a small post about it on the site
of a little rails group I have back in Florianopolis
www.cnxs.com.br to do a little advertising
about this subject.
Fact is that the TSE gives
I don't know if you guys ever did some software maintenance
But how about reviewing all the
voting machine's code in 5 days?
That is the time the TSE gives
In an enviroment controlled by the TSE
For representatives of the brazilian political parties
to revise all the source of the brazilian voting machine
I don't know exactly what I'll do about it
I'm getting in touch with some lawyer friends
to try to get all the stack of the brazilian voting machines
But I invite you all
Despite the connotation this word has these days
But I invite you to use the positive connotation of the word
Just by being here you are already an elite
Elite, in the word's original meaning
It's synonymous with leader.
A group that represents the leadership of society.
What it means to be a leader?
To be a leader is think on the collective.
So I invite all of you who have knowledge
networking, who know people, who have influence
To fight for our elections
To be more transparent
To have make the liberation, Free Code
on the most basic pillar of what we call Republic
that is the direct representation through the vote
This pillar is threatened
by the fact that the instrument we use to count the votes
is completely controlled by the TSE
That's all.