Where he gets his source from? SCO internal memo regarding the evilness of Open Source?
The way I look at it, nothing is hackerproof. If there is a way to engineer something, there is always another way to reverse engineer it, whether or not it actually get you back from Z to A is another story. From a security point of view, whether a piece of software is open source doesn't make the software any more or less secure. It is an indication of how much thrill a hacker could get out of hacking it.
Closed source development gives you a false sense of security. It is hard to imagine how secured a piece of software could be when it is coded by a trusted 7-men team (let's take a managable small integer as an example). Conversely, open source allows public peer review. It can ensure that the software developed is well tested and hacked before it goes into production use. In addition to that, governments could always hire security experts to audit the code, as they should even with closed soft counterparts.
The fear of open source could actually be political as well. We all know that in a capitalist world, nothing ever is open or free (although of course the politicians would tell you otherwise). And suddenly, you have these people giving stuff away for free -- pretty much like an act of communism where stuffs are shared around without regard of making a profit -- some people would of course scream, because the reason why the care about the technology is mostly for the profit they're getting out of it. And some others are hired to scream. Russell Jones seems to be one of those.
I don't think that Bruce is the only person aware of the fact that Cruise Missiles can be built with relatively low budget. There could be many other people, whether with some dark agenda or not is beyond us, who have the knowledge and fund to make some serious progress in similar projects. My question is to what effect is the New Zealand government attempting to "kill the project"?
It is an interesting point to note that the New Zealand government DO NOT have an air force sufficient enough to defend itself from any form of missile attacks. Is the New Zealand government trying to hide from this shaming fact and the humiliating possibilities by stopping Mr. Simpson from conducting researches on missile technology? I think it's funny how they restrict the knowledge from being publicized.
According to one of the articles that Mr. Simpson has written, the government itself has breached some of the laws to prevent him from continuing the project. This is absurd. For what reason should the citizens of New Zealand follow the law imposed on them by their government, if it is not consistently applied to all New Zealand citizens, military personnel and governors alike? If the government has "publicly admitted that the project broke no laws," they certainly owe Mr. Bruce Simpson an open apology and should permit him from continuing his projects in missile technology.
Propagating ignorance will not prevent terrorist attacks. If they should silent those who has the knowledge that could be potentially used by terrorists, no industry could possible exist anywhere in this world. Explosives can be obtained from some readily available chemicals; shoe laces can be turned into a lethal weapon; a plane can become a cannon shell; a pencil can be used by a professional trained person to kill hundreds... and the list simple goes on. Whether some seemingly trivial things can become a terrorist's tool is merely a matter of how limited your imagination is.
I don't see how shutting down Mr. Simpson's project will be to the benefit of national security or the worldwide hype of anti-terrorist champaign. It is, however, a desperate endeavor of politicians to secure their positions from being put in a vulnerable state, from those who possess the knowledge of technology so much more powerful than what they command.
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Where he gets his source from? SCO internal memo regarding the evilness of Open Source?
The way I look at it, nothing is hackerproof. If there is a way to engineer something, there is always another way to reverse engineer it, whether or not it actually get you back from Z to A is another story. From a security point of view, whether a piece of software is open source doesn't make the software any more or less secure. It is an indication of how much thrill a hacker could get out of hacking it.
Closed source development gives you a false sense of security. It is hard to imagine how secured a piece of software could be when it is coded by a trusted 7-men team (let's take a managable small integer as an example). Conversely, open source allows public peer review. It can ensure that the software developed is well tested and hacked before it goes into production use. In addition to that, governments could always hire security experts to audit the code, as they should even with closed soft counterparts.
The fear of open source could actually be political as well. We all know that in a capitalist world, nothing ever is open or free (although of course the politicians would tell you otherwise). And suddenly, you have these people giving stuff away for free -- pretty much like an act of communism where stuffs are shared around without regard of making a profit -- some people would of course scream, because the reason why the care about the technology is mostly for the profit they're getting out of it. And some others are hired to scream. Russell Jones seems to be one of those.
It is an interesting point to note that the New Zealand government DO NOT have an air force sufficient enough to defend itself from any form of missile attacks. Is the New Zealand government trying to hide from this shaming fact and the humiliating possibilities by stopping Mr. Simpson from conducting researches on missile technology? I think it's funny how they restrict the knowledge from being publicized.
According to one of the articles that Mr. Simpson has written, the government itself has breached some of the laws to prevent him from continuing the project. This is absurd. For what reason should the citizens of New Zealand follow the law imposed on them by their government, if it is not consistently applied to all New Zealand citizens, military personnel and governors alike? If the government has "publicly admitted that the project broke no laws," they certainly owe Mr. Bruce Simpson an open apology and should permit him from continuing his projects in missile technology.
Propagating ignorance will not prevent terrorist attacks. If they should silent those who has the knowledge that could be potentially used by terrorists, no industry could possible exist anywhere in this world. Explosives can be obtained from some readily available chemicals; shoe laces can be turned into a lethal weapon; a plane can become a cannon shell; a pencil can be used by a professional trained person to kill hundreds... and the list simple goes on. Whether some seemingly trivial things can become a terrorist's tool is merely a matter of how limited your imagination is.
I don't see how shutting down Mr. Simpson's project will be to the benefit of national security or the worldwide hype of anti-terrorist champaign. It is, however, a desperate endeavor of politicians to secure their positions from being put in a vulnerable state, from those who possess the knowledge of technology so much more powerful than what they command.