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Software to Support Human Rights
An anonymous reader writes "Some software rollouts have lives hanging in the balance. Human rights workers in massacre zones from El Salvador to Kosovo face prying eyes peering into their address books and logs, who follow up with bullets and poison gas. One project, Martus, takes these hostile environments into account: a leak can get whole families killed. They use encryption, distributed backup, and other techniques designed to survive the ultimate corrosive environment: vindictive armies in countrysides in the throes of war. The source code is open, to allow meaningful contributions from anyone willing to help. These people bet their lives on open source and private data. The sponsor organization, Benetech in Silicon Valley, funds projects that arm global rights workers, and people under siege, with communications tools that counterbalance the overwhelming force used to exterminate everything "Free"."
Fuck human rights! first post!
doesn't sound much different than the softwar gangster's payper liesense stock markup fraud, coupled with yOUR fudderoll 'gov't.'s tendancIE to follow/bullead the Godless bullshipping industIE into obsolete ill eagle oblivionism.
point is, almost everything's gnu, & that's what will help US get some of yOUR rights back.
va lairIE's patentdead PostBlock(tm) device? lookout bullow.
Let's give those terrorists some software so they can continue to bomb civilians and western embassies!
Encryption will be useful in the struggle against Israeli oppression. More important, is that the world unite in defeating this horror. Apartheid was defeated non-violently by a world wide embargo. Israel oppression can be defeated the same way. Happily, this seems to be coming together. Most European nations refuse to sell arms to Israel. Unfortunately, the US is the straggler here as we were in the struggle against Apartheid. Let's change that!
really. What laws have been passed that interfere with YOUR civil rights? I hear all this whining about laws being passed here that make us look worse than nazi germany (somehow)... In my own life I have not seen any difference between now and a few years ago. Apparently you do, so really, I am curious, what has happened in your life that makes you refer to our policing as KGB?