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European Commission Recommends OSS to Fight Echelon

Posted by michael on from the gnugp dept.

CrossRhythm writes: "The European Commission Resolution on Echelon encourages the Commission and Member States "to promote software projects whose source text is made public", to lay down a standard for the level of security of e-mail software packages, placing those packages whose source code has not been made public in the "least reliable" category," and "systematically to encrypt e-mails, so that ultimately encryption becomes the norm"."

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  1. Re:This is stupid by blang · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    But not as stupid as you.


    Source code in the public domain exposes the software to scutiny. Without scrutiny, how do you know it's safe? You're just going to trust the word of any two bit software maker?

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  2. Re:This is stupid by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Without scrutiny, how do you know it's safe?

    Because, duh, it has a well-defined input, and a well-defined output. Tell me how anything in the middle matters.

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  3. Re:Maybe the EU will save the Yanks' collective bu by isa-kuruption · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Guess that'll be payback for WWII... and then all the money the U.S. funneled into Europe following the war to get the economy back on track.

    It's good to have allies ;)