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No Russian Operating System, At Least For Now
Elektroschock writes "The project by 27 Russian parties to develop a National Operating System for Russia has not taken off, yet (Russian). Ilya Ponomarev, the responsible technology committee chair in the Duma, received a negative response from the government. The government argues that the project and Open Standards would not impact the society and economy. Parliament members regret the setback for Russia's digital independence. Ponomarev wants to find other interested partners in the Government now." The Google translation makes it tough to tell whether this project is actually dead, or just shelved for the moment. Any Russian speakers out there who can parse it with greater clarity?
You are one of those complete morons who can't think for themselves.
What backdoor are we talking about? E-n-c-r-y-p-t-i-o-n... whoooopyyyy!
What has the NSA done? Work with Microsoft... on encryption... whoooopppppy!
How many master/mother keys are there? Three.... whoooppyyyyy again.... yesh, yu liiiiikeee?
What is the third key's title? NSA... woooooooowwwww...
Then the NSA key title debug symbol was not removed.... wow... still following? Good... I'm glad you have the brains to read...
Then there came this Microsoft patch that r-e-m-o-v-e-d it...
Wow... either one million /.-ers minus 5 are stupid, or you are!
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liberty, blah blah, Atlas Shrugged, blah, free markets and eternal copyright, blah blah.
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My friend, you have already seen the closest thing to a "truly free market" you will ever see outside of speculative fiction, and you know what? It's not doing so hot.
You are welcome on my lawn.