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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. an Apache port to rubber bands and plastic? by lowy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If only their webserver were built from Lego:

    Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'

    [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ''.

    /inventions/invention.asp, line 64

    1. Re:an Apache port to rubber bands and plastic? by lowy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Oops. Mod me down offtopic. This should have gone under the Lego section. My bad.

    2. Re:an Apache port to rubber bands and plastic? by jamie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      "how come no one makes fun of slashdot when the database takes a shit?"

      Where have YOU been??

  2. Re:Hitler only followed US lead on native american by isa-kuruption · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The difference being that the U.S. didn't systematically kill off (or attempt to) a race of people... it was just forced relocation. Of course, that has happened for centuries. What happened in Europe w/ Hitler was that he affected a group of people that was so widely distributed it caused panic in other countries.

    However, if Hitler *only* enslaved the Jewish people, there would have not been a WWII. It would have been a dictatorship with governmental prejudices... just like many Arabic nations nowadays where they relocate people of certain ethnic origins (e.g. the Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, Isreal...).