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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. what about MS "Shared Source"? by room101 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I may be wrong, but it sounds like MS' totally bogus "shared source" will move MS from "least reliable" to something better.

    The article is pretty long, so perhaps I missed something....

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