For those of you not following the development: The German Federal Criminal Authority had to confess that they installed spyware on computers outside of Germany - which is by their law ( not US law *g* ) illegal.
This spyware they had developed is commonly called the Bundestrojaner.
Everybody who thinks that Western "Services" do not do this is N*A*I*V*E
and also not from any other country.
The US do it, the French do it, the Brits do it:
they leave their little brothers and e-moles in the software of the product.
You do not do as they wish - poops it goes.
Especially weapons systems have a remote operated switch the original manufacturer can switch off.
IT users of the world enjoy your router operations and therefore the Internet
the question stands - cui bono - why?
I know of people who have compiled MS code from source - and were unable to come up with comparable binaries in some - not all - instances.
Who told you that OSS is less safe than closed sourceWho told you that OSS is
less safe than closed source?
A representative of a company who wants to sell!
MS is known to have used a business tactics known as Fear, Uncertainty
and Disorientation
Facts are:
MS source code can be obtained by Hackers/Crackers through illegitimate channels - the availability of source code is not an argument.
Thousands of experts monitor OSS source code and vulnerabilities are discussed in the open. Hackers recognizing vulnerabilities in MS source code are not to publish it, but to write exploits!
Number of successful attacks on MS and other closed source products in comparison to OSS products speaks for itself.
Average workload consumed per machine for remedy of exploitation coed ( malware removal ) was per Windows machines 20 manhours, for Linux machines 0.01 hours at a company running 5000 PCs
You can offer security tests and penetration tests to your costumer !
The largest institutions and companies where security is an issue use Linux
do you know anyone trustworthy with access to MS code who could do a compilation of it resulting in binaries identical to the ones found on distribution media?
common sense says US intelligence needs to place spyware into items to be found in any network.
placing a Trojan Boot Loader in every Router- or Switch Box allows a far cheaper and more directed spying than Echelon. Traffic to and from the spyware will be well hidden in the Internet-traffic to Search engines.
do you take medical drugs which were verified in tests by independent hospitals and doctors, the substances layed open, the effects described, the side effects being put into warnings?
or do you prefer snake oil remedies for infections?
second: in Europe ( except UK ) you can sue the callers at the court for disturbance of business - and maybe up to fraud. If vendors place such calls and make such claims about unsafe FOSS, they have to deliver proof or they have to recall their statements publicly in media!
be it Haliburton or what else.
the only reason Dick, Donald and George are still in the US is that they are too stupid to learn another language, but smart enough to fool most US rednecks who support the National Rifle Association.
Isn't it treason if you hand over weapons to terrorists - even i fthey promise your to help you against the Soviets?;-)
Richard Stallman is the guy who actually broke M$ worldrule. He recognized the trick by Billyboy: take something free, add a little bit and make it proprietary.
GPL killed this scheme.
As much as William Henry G3 dreamed to monopolize it all, let Richard be the counterweight dream to free it all.
I understand: the language you speak is owned by no one ( French exempt), the symbols of writing ( though not all fonts ) are free, the rules of mathematics are free -
and so should all cultural techniques be free which are to be used by the majority of the population.
Therefore SW should be free!
There will always be some fields who are special so that nobody is willing to invest programming time in it. There commercial software is right.
You want it - you get it by inserting the proper amount of coins!
Let our elected representatives stay in their election district!
Give them fast Internet and connect them to Senate or Congress. There they are represented with a monitor and loudspeaker instead of of a seat.
This way a lot of money is saved for travelling, residence in Washington, etc...
Also our poor representatives are better shielded against them nasty lobbyists. And they do not loose contact with their voters - they get immediate feedback when they are out for dinner in a local restaurant.
Let our representatives also participate in the benefits of electronic technology, not only voters through e-votes!
Let our elected representatives stay in their election district!
Give them fast Internet and connect them to Senate or Congress. There they are represented with a monitor and loudspeaker instead of of a seat.
This way a lot of money is saved for travelling, residence in Washington, etc...
Also our poor representatives are better shielded against them nasty lobbyists. And they do not loose contact with their voters - they get immediate feedback when they are out for dinner in a local restaurant.
Let our representatives also participate in the benefits of electronic technology, not only voters through e-votes!
Do you know that a photon takes hundred of years to get out of the interior of the sun to reach free space, where it has a very little chance to hit earth and an even smaller one to meet your eye?
Do you have any idea about how many gamma photons zig-zag through our sun?
Forget the LHC!
Read the report considering the risks by the atomic weapons stockpiled by our 5 official and 3 inofficial nuclear weapon states!
Nevertheless the "cure" for violent behaviour was to force the ultra-violent Alex to watch violence and to produce an anti-reaction to violence.
Every pilot who trains in a simulator will confirm what the flight-medics know: In the simulator the situation can not be distinguished from the real one.
Please do not think that realistic violent video games do not prepare for violence.
An adolescent is unlikely to drive agressive after playing pac-man. But playing GTA produces more agressive driving similar to onlookers of car races.
Slashdot Mirror
or they are too clever to be recognised as such
And BTW anybody surprised? Bundestrojaner of Germany, maybe there is some cooperation?
The Illustrated Man coming alive!
For those of you not following the development: The German Federal Criminal Authority had to confess that they installed spyware on computers outside of Germany - which is by their law ( not US law *g* ) illegal.
This spyware they had developed is commonly called the Bundestrojaner.
Everybody who thinks that Western "Services" do not do this is N*A*I*V*E
is worth also the FUD which tells them that their power grid is under Internet attack
being an electrical engineer and having an electrical power engineer as father - he said: BULLSH?T
You do not do as they wish - poops it goes.
Especially weapons systems have a remote operated switch the original manufacturer can switch off.
IT users of the world enjoy your router operations and therefore the Internet
as long as Uncle SAM allows you to!
Then their fundamentalists braked in their mind-control!
Hello Houston - we have a problem!
not Apollo 13 any more but the whole nation
the question stands - cui bono - why? I know of people who have compiled MS code from source - and were unable to come up with comparable binaries in some - not all - instances.
Who told you that OSS is less safe than closed sourceWho told you that OSS is less safe than closed source?
A representative of a company who wants to sell!
MS is known to have used a business tactics known as Fear, Uncertainty and Disorientation
Facts are:
MS source code can be obtained by Hackers/Crackers through illegitimate channels - the availability of source code is not an argument.
Thousands of experts monitor OSS source code and vulnerabilities are discussed in the open. Hackers recognizing vulnerabilities in MS source code are not to publish it, but to write exploits!
Number of successful attacks on MS and other closed source products in comparison to OSS products speaks for itself.
Average workload consumed per machine for remedy of exploitation coed ( malware removal ) was per Windows machines 20 manhours, for Linux machines 0.01 hours at a company running 5000 PCs
You can offer security tests and penetration tests to your costumer !
The largest institutions and companies where security is an issue use Linux
Contraindications - or failures of MS installations in the media:
do you know anyone trustworthy with access to MS code who could do a compilation of it resulting in binaries identical to the ones found on distribution media?
Otherwise: Tierra Y Libertad Y Confidentialitad
or do you prefer snake oil remedies for infections?
second: in Europe ( except UK ) you can sue the callers at the court for disturbance of business - and maybe up to fraud. If vendors place such calls and make such claims about unsafe FOSS, they have to deliver proof or they have to recall their statements publicly in media!
http://euro-police.noblogs.org/post/2009/02/08/bislang-geheime-datenbank-erfasst-in-gro-britannien-alle-ein-und-ausreisen
http://derstandard.at/PDA/?id=1233586959776
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bislang-geheime-Datenbank-erfasst-in-Grossbritannien-alle-Ein-und-Ausreisen--/meldung/127093
Media in Europe say it is already in place and it was discovered. So UK gov gave an explanation that it "is planned" .
http://euro-police.noblogs.org/post/2009/02/08/bislang-geheime-datenbank-erfasst-in-gro-britannien-alle-ein-und-ausreisen
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Bislang-geheime-Datenbank-erfasst-in-Grossbritannien-alle-Ein-und-Ausreisen--/meldung/127093
http://derstandard.at/PDA/?id=1233586959776
http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/ST/NA/NAAL/agri/pbu/agriPBUmain.php
because US WASP babies are not fed this way
and US guys are not allowed to see them!
If you come to Europe Ladies are allowed on the beach topless
There you will notice how unfavorable big boobs look!
I was told: two handful is enough! - right so!
if you look closely the US isn't doing too well recently!
without Russian supply ships the ISS is cut off. deficit spending not only the state but the whole country.
And -I tell you confidently - there are more ways to skin a cat than the US way.
take the words "cell phone" to literally?
Maybe it was snatched by a alien?
be it Haliburton or what else. the only reason Dick, Donald and George are still in the US is that they are too stupid to learn another language, but smart enough to fool most US rednecks who support the National Rifle Association. Isn't it treason if you hand over weapons to terrorists - even i fthey promise your to help you against the Soviets? ;-)
GPL killed this scheme.
As much as William Henry G3 dreamed to monopolize it all, let Richard be the counterweight dream to free it all.
I understand: the language you speak is owned by no one ( French exempt), the symbols of writing ( though not all fonts ) are free, the rules of mathematics are free -
and so should all cultural techniques be free which are to be used by the majority of the population.
Therefore SW should be free!
There will always be some fields who are special so that nobody is willing to invest programming time in it. There commercial software is right.
You want it - you get it by inserting the proper amount of coins!
Give them fast Internet and connect them to Senate or Congress. There they are represented with a monitor and loudspeaker instead of of a seat.
This way a lot of money is saved for travelling, residence in Washington, etc...
Also our poor representatives are better shielded against them nasty lobbyists. And they do not loose contact with their voters - they get immediate feedback when they are out for dinner in a local restaurant.
Let our representatives also participate in the benefits of electronic technology, not only voters through e-votes!
for an e-parliament!
let me have your opinion on this!
Give them fast Internet and connect them to Senate or Congress. There they are represented with a monitor and loudspeaker instead of of a seat.
This way a lot of money is saved for travelling, residence in Washington, etc...
Also our poor representatives are better shielded against them nasty lobbyists. And they do not loose contact with their voters - they get immediate feedback when they are out for dinner in a local restaurant.
Let our representatives also participate in the benefits of electronic technology, not only voters through e-votes!
for an e-parliament!
let me have your opinion on this!
vacuum
normal air
water
????????
Do you know that a photon takes hundred of years to get out of the interior of the sun to reach free space, where it has a very little chance to hit earth and an even smaller one to meet your eye?
Do you have any idea about how many gamma photons zig-zag through our sun?
Forget the LHC!
Read the report considering the risks by the atomic weapons stockpiled by our 5 official and 3 inofficial nuclear weapon states!
please send me yr banking information
I hate credit card transfers!
Nevertheless the "cure" for violent behaviour was to force the ultra-violent Alex to watch violence and to produce an anti-reaction to violence.
Every pilot who trains in a simulator will confirm what the flight-medics know: In the simulator the situation can not be distinguished from the real one.
Please do not think that realistic violent video games do not prepare for violence.
An adolescent is unlikely to drive agressive after playing pac-man. But playing GTA produces more agressive driving similar to onlookers of car races.