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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. Didn't Europeans Systematically Exterminate Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why are we listening to their paranoid delusions. Look where this led in the 30's and 40's.

    Why, if we're so concerned about avoiding euro-centericism, are we bowing and scraping before them now?

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

    If your goal is encrypted e-mail, what does the source code have to do with anything? As long as it follows published encryption algorithms, that's all that matters. After all, if it doesn't follow the standard, then it's kind of hard to decrypt it.

    I think it's a tad more important for the underlying mathematics to be tight, than to be able to view the source code implementation of an inferior algorithm.

    --
    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  3. It's easy to dismiss.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But you have to admit that Jews really do control the world.

    Mazel Tov!
    Jon Katz