That's enough!
First we don't get dcss in debian because of stupid US-Law.
Second we don't get decent crypto in debian main because of stupid US-Law.
Third we get the most stupid US-Law WORLDWIDE!
Argh!
the standard kernel is very secure, but still there are securety bugs in it discovered every now and then.
Now if you tried to hide some backdoor in a patch you send in, it won't proppably go unnoticed.
But the nsa afaik has some real mount of code to hide them in. Disguised as programming errors split over their whole project. And if you have really much code who will find that out?
And more important: Who can ever be sure?
i would not go near anything, that was touched by nsa fbi or what ever.
Hey they demand crypto-backdoors, why should they keep the publicly available version of their os free of backdoors. They can allways say it was just typos...
Well that's what i call Terror!
Your Governmet is running amok. Who is going to stop them? If they go this road further, the awsome amount of destruction in NY will look like a fart compared to the damage America caused it self reacting to it.
If i lived in the US i would run anywhere else before it's to late!
It's not the questions asked it's that seemingly noone here understands, that regulating cryptography in any way by us laws doesn't do anything except weakening US cittizens privacy
and general securety in the US.
1. No cryptoregulation is enforcable because of steanography
2. No cryptoregulation is enforcable because other contries give a fuck about US-Laws.
3. Cryptoregulation is going to backfire because backdoors won't stay secret for long.
>>Internet Explorer 6 is the most standards-compliant browser ever made
That might be true if you define standards like microsoft does:
Well, we make the standard software, so it is allways standards-compliant.
The real question is, what will they say, when they have to switch to clockless chips for performanze and heatefichiency?
Maybe something like the pentium rating of the old k6...
" Hey my nu Compy got 6g P-five rating!"
Exactly!
Stopping Terrorism done by enhancing securety.
You could live in a police state that tracks peoples movements in every technologicaly possible way and regulates even the use of toiletpaper (in case someone would use it to start a fire) and still there would be terrorists.
But in this cenario i would be one of them.
Well "The Land of the Free" is going to be protected by taking away the freedom. And best of all: It's useless. Calling that right must be real Patriotism.
It might not be perfectliy cost efective, but think of the pr-value and the real cool look.
So you build a scyscraper, and get a monument and do something for the environment for just a few bucks extra.:)
I mean: How will they stop me (and Bin Laden) from writing my own crypto-software and use it for what ever i please, or even upload it to Debian-non-us? Does the US government really think Americans are the only ones who can write cryptography-software??? Now how dump is this?
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That's enough! First we don't get dcss in debian because of stupid US-Law. Second we don't get decent crypto in debian main because of stupid US-Law. Third we get the most stupid US-Law WORLDWIDE! Argh!
I think no country is "safe". Europe for example suffers heavyly from "me-to-law-desease". :(
at least you would anonymize and publish the information (unlike the govs) wouldn't you? ;)
So i would'nt mind.
What does that say about the other countries? ;P
btw. where did you get that info from?
the standard kernel is very secure, but still there are securety bugs in it discovered every now and then. Now if you tried to hide some backdoor in a patch you send in, it won't proppably go unnoticed. But the nsa afaik has some real mount of code to hide them in. Disguised as programming errors split over their whole project. And if you have really much code who will find that out? And more important: Who can ever be sure?
i would not go near anything, that was touched by nsa fbi or what ever. Hey they demand crypto-backdoors, why should they keep the publicly available version of their os free of backdoors. They can allways say it was just typos...
Hello? Somebody Listening? Hacking the military or government in the US seems more like an anti-terroristic akt to me in these days!
Well that's what i call Terror! Your Governmet is running amok. Who is going to stop them? If they go this road further, the awsome amount of destruction in NY will look like a fart compared to the damage America caused it self reacting to it. If i lived in the US i would run anywhere else before it's to late!
That's what the US always try: "install" a (US-) friendly government. If i'm well informed Bin Laden's Power was created during such an activity.
It's not the questions asked it's that seemingly noone here understands, that regulating cryptography in any way by us laws doesn't do anything except weakening US cittizens privacy and general securety in the US. 1. No cryptoregulation is enforcable because of steanography 2. No cryptoregulation is enforcable because other contries give a fuck about US-Laws. 3. Cryptoregulation is going to backfire because backdoors won't stay secret for long.
>>Internet Explorer 6 is the most standards-compliant browser ever made That might be true if you define standards like microsoft does: Well, we make the standard software, so it is allways standards-compliant.
The real question is, what will they say, when they have to switch to clockless chips for performanze and heatefichiency? Maybe something like the pentium rating of the old k6... " Hey my nu Compy got 6g P-five rating!"
Exactly! Stopping Terrorism done by enhancing securety. You could live in a police state that tracks peoples movements in every technologicaly possible way and regulates even the use of toiletpaper (in case someone would use it to start a fire) and still there would be terrorists. But in this cenario i would be one of them.
Well "The Land of the Free" is going to be protected by taking away the freedom. And best of all: It's useless. Calling that right must be real Patriotism.
It might not be perfectliy cost efective, but think of the pr-value and the real cool look. So you build a scyscraper, and get a monument and do something for the environment for just a few bucks extra. :)
I mean: How will they stop me (and Bin Laden) from writing my own crypto-software and use it for what ever i please, or even upload it to Debian-non-us? Does the US government really think Americans are the only ones who can write cryptography-software??? Now how dump is this?