As an analogy, imagine a person harrering a nail into some wood. Given a fairly big swing, one could imagine significant penetration of the wood. Imagine the same hammer, same swing, but no nail. Perhaps there would be an indentation on the wood, but nothing more.
No matter what happened, there would always be something that could have been designed better. It doesn't benefit anybody to point the finger at any particular groups other than the hijackers. The main thing is that we learn the prevent this thing from happening while preserving our basic values.
Clearly, what is needed here is a MIT-style license that specificly excludes Microsoft, since that's what everybody is worried about. I'm not quite sure whether I'm saying this is jest, since I suspect it might appeal to many people in this forum. Here's a first stab at it, taken from the MIT license.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person, other than an employee or agent of Microsoft Corporation, obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Aren't these goverment agencies supposed to be co-operating. Why don't the FBI just use the backdoor that the NSA has already gotten into Windows? This seems to be a duplication of effort here - first WINDOWS_KEY and NSA_KEY, now FBI_KEY, CIA_KEY and what about the states? Surely they should have their own keys as well!
What rot! Anybody in the open source world knows the basics of intellectual property. If a customer wants to hire a developer who has worked on open source projects, they need to specify that. A developer can either do what the customer wants or not take up the contact.
Open source projects *do* serve as an excellent extended resume for developers. If you want to see what the skill level of a programmer is, you can just download the code and check it out.
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As an analogy, imagine a person harrering a nail into some wood. Given a fairly big swing, one could imagine significant penetration of the wood. Imagine the same hammer, same swing, but no nail. Perhaps there would be an indentation on the wood, but nothing more.
No matter what happened, there would always be something that could have been designed better. It doesn't benefit anybody to point the finger at any particular groups other than the hijackers. The main thing is that we learn the prevent this thing from happening while preserving our basic values.
Cell Computing make these http://www.cellcomputing.com/ - pretty much the same thing.
Clearly, what is needed here is a MIT-style license that specificly excludes Microsoft, since that's what everybody is worried about. I'm not quite sure whether I'm saying this is jest, since I suspect it might appeal to many people in this forum. Here's a first stab at it, taken from the MIT license.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person, other than an employee or agent of Microsoft Corporation, obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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Why doesn't Microsoft install the patches by port scanning for the vulnerability?
The CerfCube is a ARM-based development board that can be used for designing USB devices. It runs Linux and has a number I/O capabilities.
Aren't these goverment agencies supposed to be co-operating. Why don't the FBI just use the backdoor that the NSA has already gotten into Windows? This seems to be a duplication of effort here - first WINDOWS_KEY and NSA_KEY, now FBI_KEY, CIA_KEY and what about the states? Surely they should have their own keys as well!
What rot! Anybody in the open source world knows the basics of intellectual property. If a customer wants to hire a developer who has worked on open source projects, they need to specify that. A developer can either do what the customer wants or not take up the contact. Open source projects *do* serve as an excellent extended resume for developers. If you want to see what the skill level of a programmer is, you can just download the code and check it out.