[–] 26556841? 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

OP please stop talking out of your ass you're obviously a novice

For one, compiled code is harder to read but its still code. A sufficiently knowledgeable person can read it just fine.

For another, the much bigger issue is determining what actual binary was deployed to the machines.

Voting machines are heavily regulated so there are a lot of checks against stuff like this but obviously no system is perfect.

[–] 26556976? [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

You're not fucking reading 32 or 64 bit compiled code in 1's and 0's fuckwit.

[–] 26557019? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No of course I wouldn't dumbass, I'd read it in hex.

[–] 26556316? 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

I'm glad we have coder faggots like you to explain this shit...

[–] 26560584? ago 

You can also write code that Eats It's Self.. at certain objective meet the code will rewrite it's self and "erase" it's trail.

Just saying.

[–] 26560437? ago  (edited ago)

The issue here is that floating point arithmetic is not perfectly reversible. The exponent and mantissa are both variable and there are numbers without perfectly round representations which lead to an increase in Epsilon as the number of operations increases. Yeah, we can create a "probable" reversal but with the number of adjustments I've seen it's likely raised Epsilon really high.

The question is how much tolerance for error does an election need? If we cannot accept a single vote error then Epsilon is a serious factor. If not, we'd have to make the estimation so that Epsilon was minimized.

[–] 26560338? ago 

you forgot the encompassing outer logic..."for 1 to 600K do{}" (loops 600K times) or "while (1) {}" (forever loop). remember they were stupid, so UNATURAL is your watchword if you want to reproduce this.

[–] 26560273? ago 

If the Chinese have the code due to an escrow requirement (I believe I read that the other day), then I would guess we have it via the NSA.

[–] 26559905? ago 

We do not need to know what compiler was used. We can just read the machine code it generated to see what it is really doing. Tedious, but the only way. However, I believe they have the source code.

[–] 26559656? ago 

LOL. Congrats on passing CS 101.

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