The author speaks of financing being a major hurdle to terrorist groups interested in CW. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not that most of Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Software is all that great for CW, there are plenty of scripts to download for free off any of the "cracker" sites.
Additionally, large organizations are cited as being required. A single, motivated terrorist, amatuer or professional, can take out several "mission critical" systems with nothing more than a net connection and a free evening.
I think your "solution" is a bit short-sighted. If we run the competition today, how does the "perfect" tool/protocol/wrapper of tomorrow get a chance? Sure X is bloated, and at times even ugly (fvwm95), but anyone who thinks they've got an idea is free to implement it.
Besides, I thought one of the major philosphies behind open source was to keep tyranny at bay...
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The author speaks of financing being a major hurdle to terrorist groups interested in CW. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not that most of Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Software is all that great for CW, there are plenty of scripts to download for free off any of the "cracker" sites.
Additionally, large organizations are cited as being required. A single, motivated terrorist, amatuer or professional, can take out several "mission critical" systems with nothing more than a net connection and a free evening.
I think your "solution" is a bit short-sighted. If we run the competition today, how does the "perfect" tool/protocol/wrapper of tomorrow get a chance? Sure X is bloated, and at times even ugly (fvwm95), but anyone who thinks they've got an idea is free to implement it.
Besides, I thought one of the major philosphies behind open source was to keep tyranny at bay...