Actually, they make M-16 variants (the C-7 product line) for Canada and a couple of other NATO countries. Actually, now that I think about it, Mattel is a fairly large arms merchant. They make everything up to and including aircraft armnaments.
There's a simple solution, promote open source software. Since most projects are distributed free (in the beer sense), there is little incentive for the coders to include such back doors. At any rate, if it's open source, just remove the offending code. As for commercial vendors, well companies like M$ will love this and it may even give them some short term profits, but once businesses understand the security and legal ramifications, they will flee to OSS in droves.
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Look up Glaser safety slugs. There is ammo that is safe for use on airplanes and federal marshals use it.
Try http://www.citizensontheweb.com or http://canadaelection.org/
www.citizensontheweb.com would be interested in telling your friend's story. If you are interested, please e-mail me the details.
Actually, they make M-16 variants (the C-7 product line) for Canada and a couple of other NATO countries. Actually, now that I think about it, Mattel is a fairly large arms merchant. They make everything up to and including aircraft armnaments.
Another AI company gone bankrupt. Shutdown by M$ too. At least firefly did something useful with agent technology. It wasn't all smoke and mirrors.
first post?
well, I was gonna yell SECOND POST!!!, but somehow it didn't have that certain ring to it....:)
There's a simple solution, promote open source software. Since most projects are distributed free (in the beer sense), there is little incentive for the coders to include such back doors. At any rate, if it's open source, just remove the offending code. As for commercial vendors, well companies like M$ will love this and it may even give them some short term profits, but once businesses understand the security and legal ramifications, they will flee to OSS in droves.