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Originally Posted by Matt L
You can decompile a program down to "a" source. Not "its" source. It certainly won't be very readable, and that's assuming that only an optimizer was used in the compiler back-end. Consider if they use an obfuscator.
It's not impossible to deciper such things, but it's not easy at all. Since there's a lead time for this (say, from the software release date until the election), making it hard is enough.
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Yup, it might not be easy, but possible. I would imagine that any program goes through vigorous testing by a third party to find any sort of mistake. Plus, I would think whoever paid for the program would want the source, after all they paid for it.