[SLUG] Florida's Intoxilyzer 5000 must have source fully disclosed for review

From: Ian C. Blenke (ian@blenke.com)
Date: Thu Nov 03 2005 - 12:02:34 EST


Yesterday, 11/02/05, In the case of the State of Florida vs Carole Mae
Bjorkland (et al.) in Sarasota county, the judges have ordered the state
to produce the sourcecode of the EEPROMs used in the Intoxilyzer 5000.
CMI doesn't look like they want to divulge it, and the state doesn't
have a copy of it. They have 15 days to produce it:

http://www.venfl.com/features/pdf/harrison-sourcecode.pdf

Sadly, the source would be exposed only to Dr. Myler to review.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2145410/judge-gets-bottom-possible

I don't see anything compelling CMI to release their source, so this
very well may doom that breathalyzer's use in the state.

You know, if this were OpenSource, this wouldn't be an issue...

 - Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/

<http://www.venfl.com/features/pdf/harrison-sourcecode.pdf>
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