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Open Source Enables Terrorist States
chill writes "Where to begin? OpenBSD Journal has a couple of update articles on the business of DARPA cancelling POSSE and OpenBSD's grant. And here is a message from Theo de Raadt, the OpenBSD big cheese, with a quote from a military spokesman. How does '...due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states...' grab you? Does open source and freely available security support terrorism by its very nature?"
When you're downloading OpenBSD, you're downloading Communism!
Somebody get that guy an ambulance!
This might be the stupidest thing I've heard all week...
How about guns? Terrorists use guns...is our military going to stop using guns too?
How about toilet paper? Do any terrorists use toilet paper? If so, will our GIs start receiving the Sears catalog instead?
... due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly capable military empires, the University on April 22 advised the Government to suspend work on the "command and conquer" portion of its foriegn policy.
Clearly you have never met any persian women do you? (or any woman for that matter). Some of the most beautiful women I know are from Iran... And Afghani women have a reputation for their beautiful eyes (green).
Anyhow, I am sure they have their share of trolls. But so does the US of A with their over weight whales wearing skin tight spandex when shopping at the food court.... uuuughhhhh
Well, you could take that view, or you could just assume that everyone in power is EVIL.
Well, you could take that view, or you could just assume that everyone in power is EVIL.
That's what I do and look how well I've turned out!
I love the smell of Karma in the morning
as opposed to the al-qaeda member with the CD burner and a pirate copy of windows XP...
--- Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit? | Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their smog statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave L.A. to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country either, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feministic atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are democrats.
10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.
12. Slashdot is read by people that don't bother reading 1 thru 11.
Doh! That won't work either!
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Ummmm.
Throw any Muslims off maths courses
Doh!
Retrieve every programming manual and any Math paper that might possibly help terrorists.
Doh!
Don't let any non-Americans have computers, calculators, pens or paper
Doh!
I know! Eat some apple pie and bomb the bastards!
Yeah! Solution.
US officials report that their weapon inspectors have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It's an Apache server.
"This is VERY strong evidence", says the cheif Inspector. "They could use this server to calculate ballistic paths of shells like we did with ENICAC in WW2. And these shells can be LOADED with chemical and biological agents".
In other news:
A group in Sweden has filed a request to their government to initiate "Operation American freedom".
"Yes it's true, and we are considering this", says a high swedish official. They have a very weak democratic system. The last election was a joke. They still have the death penalty, that we banned two centuries ago. They have nukes and chemical weapons and they do not follow the UN recommedations, but invade other contries at their own discretion.
"I know we are a small peace loving country with limited military resources, but we have to do this. This nation is a threat. And with determination and creative behind enemy lines warfare we will see this through. The American people deserve their freedom. I know many Americans say they dont want to be set free this way because many innocent Americans will die, but they have been blinded by their enslavement. This evil Bush regime must come to an end and their weapons of mass destruction (Like Apache servers) must be eliminated.
The Vikings will set the American people free. We feel obliged by future generations and god(Thor with the hammer).
Cheers. Patrix, Sweden
open development of technologies leads to the bad guys getting a leg up on the good guys
Windows suddenly sounds less evil when then told me Open Source assists terrorists.
Someone told me Open Source rapes pregnant women and molests children in the street too. We've got closed-source proprietary software wrong all these years.
God saves us
If the US wants to stop terrorists getting hold of bad things, then the various US government agencies should stop selling them!
Could you please send the statue of Liberty back to old Europe? I've heard it's feeling awfully depressed these days....
I couldn't agree more, except for the fact that in america, the masses are in power.
I'm sorry, you made a spelling error. That should read, "In America, the asses are in power."
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
OpenBSD is too secure for DARPAs liking and doesn't seem to contain backdoors?
With that kind of recommendation, I consider switching my server software to OpenBSD.
By nature, terrorists obviously aren't going to obey any laws...
Not even the law of thermodinamics?
</bad joke>
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
They never have and are unlikely to start now.
This should suprise no one. Every large organization is like that. Note the following old, well worn fable.
In the beginning was the plan,
and then the specification;
And the plan was without form,
and the specification was void.
And darkness
was on the faces of the implementors thereof;
And they spake unto their leader,
saying:
"It is a crock of shit,
and smells as of a sewer."
And the leader took pity on them,
and spoke to the project leader:
"It is a crock of excrement,
and none may abide the odor thereof."
And the project leader
spake unto his section head, saying:
"It is a container of excrement,
and it is very strong, such that none may abide it."
The section head then hurried to his department manager,
and informed him thus:
"It is a vessel of fertilizer,
and none may abide its strength."
The department manager carried these words
to his general manager,
and spoke unto him
saying:
"It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants,
and it is very strong."
And so it was that the general manager rejoiced
and delivered the good news unto the Vice President.
"It promoteth growth,
and it is very powerful."
The Vice President rushed to the President's side,
and joyously exclaimed:
"This powerful new software product
will promote the growth of the company!"
And the President looked upon the product,
and saw that it was very good.
After the subsequent disaster, the suits protect themselves
by saying "I was misinformed!", and the implementors are
demoted or fired.
It doesn't matter what you're building, whether software, hardware, ariplanes, buildings, or cheezey poof poofing machines.
There is a civil war coming in the United States. Remember which side has most of the guns
Allowing people to post to /. as Anonymous Cowards allows people like me, Saddam Hussein, to anonymously disseminate anti-American sentiment! /. must be shut down in the name of Patriotism! It's the only American thing to do!
Me, I'm just glad the bombing's over. Thanks, guys. Would you mind cleaning up after yourselves on the way out?
Here's the way it works: anything that the terrorists can use to aid in their attack is hereby no longer supported by the US Government. Take plants, for example.
You see, plants possess the ability to produce oxygen, which terrorists use to breathe. As they are breathing, they have a tendency to attack the United States. Therefore, plants are obviously a threat to national security. This explains why the US refuses to sign the Kyoto treaty. They've also begun to burn every national forest, and are paying lesser nations (through devious trade agreements) to destroy all the rain forests in the world.
Down with plants! They are the tools of the enemy!!
--Mid
Theo de Raadt wrote:
Nice to know the ACLU is there to defend de Raadt's Constitutional right to taxpayer money.