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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. Re:Besides, it's BSD, not GPL, right? by JohnFluxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well - just a couple of non-serious points:

    a) GPL lets you hide altered source if you don't give the program to anyone else.
    b) I don't think the evil terrorists would care if they weren't allowed