It's a shame. Our governments nurture the development of amazing new technology (yay!) and then keep it to themselves so that they can beat the bad guys (boo). It's a sad, unfortunate necessity, but just think how everyone could benefit if we could share these advancements! After all, we pay for our government, so we're paying (to some extent) for these advances.
Maybe we could have 'security clearance levels' assigned to members of the public, based on how nice they were. Perhaps psychological tests could identify criminal tendencies at a young age to screen out those who would abuse the knowledge they would receive. Perhaps I'm being a complete utopian.
It just seems like such a sad waste of knowledge, don't you think?
Surely with all the technology that is a part of military systems today, war is cyberwar. If the systems onboard an aircraft can be hacked (somehow), and the aircraft is brought down, is that cyberwar? or just plain war?
if cyberwar is merely hacking and 'eavesdropping'.. bringing down your enemies' government's web pages is hardly likely to ensure a victory:-)
In fact, if you hack someone's machine, are you declaring cyberwar on them?
I read slashdot practically every day, but rarely post. You lot are fairly capable of covering everything under the sun to do with the subject without my banter:-)..but linuxchix?? it's nice to see another 'we-like-linux' site, and the fact that it encourages girls is good too, and hey - the logo rocks - but I'm not sure it's heading the right way. the thought of a 'female' distribution (why?) is worrying.
I'm sorry to see that linuxchix was formed after some comments on Slashdot. I've never read anything that really put me out on here. perhaps rather than creating our own niche, we should look at the root of the problem, though?
I like the idea, and will probably subscribe to linuxchix. but i wouldn't want us girls (sorry, but i can't stand the term geekgirl - does every male user say 'geekguy'?) breaking away to start our own thang and completely miss the point that linux is for everyone together. all hold hands!! lalalaa, etc. sooo...could we have a mission statement from linuxchix pls?
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It's a shame. Our governments nurture the development of amazing new technology (yay!) and then keep it to themselves so that they can beat the bad guys (boo). It's a sad, unfortunate necessity, but just think how everyone could benefit if we could share these advancements! After all, we pay for our government, so we're paying (to some extent) for these advances.
Maybe we could have 'security clearance levels' assigned to members of the public, based on how nice they were. Perhaps psychological tests could identify criminal tendencies at a young age to screen out those who would abuse the knowledge they would receive. Perhaps I'm being a complete utopian.
It just seems like such a sad waste of knowledge, don't you think?
Surely with all the technology that is a part of military systems today, war is cyberwar. If the systems onboard an aircraft can be hacked (somehow), and the aircraft is brought down, is that cyberwar? or just plain war?
if cyberwar is merely hacking and 'eavesdropping'.. bringing down your enemies' government's web pages is hardly likely to ensure a victory :-)
In fact, if you hack someone's machine, are you declaring cyberwar on them?
I'm sorry to see that linuxchix was formed after some comments on Slashdot. I've never read anything that really put me out on here. perhaps rather than creating our own niche, we should look at the root of the problem, though?
I like the idea, and will probably subscribe to linuxchix. but i wouldn't want us girls (sorry, but i can't stand the term geekgirl - does every male user say 'geekguy'?) breaking away to start our own thang and completely miss the point that linux is for everyone together. all hold hands!! lalalaa, etc.
sooo...could we have a mission statement from linuxchix pls?