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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. Maybe the EU will save the Yanks' collective butt! by jswitte · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ever since I read that the EU was looking into anti-trust/price-fixing violations by the record and movie companies, and now are looking at M$, I think that maybe the EU will save the US from itself..

    Jim