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Open Source Enables Terrorist States

Posted by timothy on from the don-your-surreality-glasses dept.

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?"

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  1. ...so...painfully...DUMB... by goldenfield · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?