Self-eating code
»From the politics and programming part of the brain.
Computer Programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis testifies that Tom Feeney tried to pay him to rig election vote counts. Feeney was Speaker of the Houe of Florida at the time, but is currently US Representative representing the Florida 24th
Congress: “Assuming for the moment that such software to rig a vote was used in one or more machines in Ohio or Florida, could you today detect that, if you could look at the source code?”
Clinton Eugene Curtis: “If you can get the machine, and they have not been patched yet and then take those machines, decompile them, which I couldn’t do, but possibly a [person from] Microsoft or MIT could do. You might, you might, be able to see them.”
C: “You might?”
CEC: “Yes, you might, it depends on how good they are destroying what they had.”
J: “Destroying what they had by tampering with the machine they had access to or destroying the instuctions on the machine in the first place.”
CEC: “Either or both. You didn’t actually see what’s in there , so you don’t know if the code is running in a single executable or if the code is running in various modules. if it’s running in modules, you can make the code actually eat it self.”
… audience expresses amazement …