This whole Stanford "security" policy featuring "full scans of everything" reeks of NSA+PATRIOT act crap & stupidity, all in the same cocktail. It is SHAMEFUL using PII as an excuse - did the corporatized university bureaucrats assigned to Stanford consult with its Computer Science department? Because even the Wikipedia entry for "PII" mentions that, in this "late anthropocenic era" of TMI, with its Internet and social metworks, there are a zillion other ways to get that info without access to PII, & I'm pretty sure IBM's sw doesn't detect that ! I just cannot believe it. Back to MIT I guess.. oh wait! MIT was the one institution whose inaction in defense of free speech and academic freedom was a significant contributing factor in the chain of events leading to the unfortunate suicide of that good fellow that took back to the general public digital truckloads of scientific papers, most probably paid for by our tax dollars to begin with.. On Jan 30, 2014 12:12 PM, "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 01/30/2014 11:38 AM, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > >> Jonathan Wilkes: >> >>> Before I write anything else: Is the BigFix client free software? >>> Couldn't figure it out from a quick look at the website. >>> >> I also couldn't find confirmation it's Free Software. >> > > Someone from Stanford want to weigh in here? It's a very simple question, > and I apologize in advance if I missed something obvious. > > If it is proprietary, is there a bold Stanford student on this list > willing to take his/her Debian box (or whatever flavor OS) in to IT and > report on the process of getting it up and running on the network without > installing a proprietary binary? > > -Jonathan > > And the default in >> our world is being copyrighted, proprietary. >> >> In conclusion, Stanford "liberationtech" is promoting proprietary >> software? >> >> What are the chances, that IBM - as an US company - isn't or won't soon >> be subverted by NSA backdoor, now that we know from news how NSA >> infiltrated other proprietary software? >> >> Is this just a draconian enforcement of someone not aware or not caring >> about Free Software / "liberationtech" or are stronger mechanisms (ex: >> national security letter) at play here? >> >> > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/ > mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change > password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. >
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