Il giorno sabato 19/01/2019 11:41:43 +0100 Nicolás Ortega Froysa <nort...@themusicinnoise.net> ha scritto:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 09:44:43PM -0600, J.B. Nicholson wrote: > > Lyberta wrote: > > > Today the Internet is filled with malware that is free software: > > > > > > https://lyberta.net/articles/tech/free_sw_untrusted.html > > > > The article points out that auditing matters and I concur -- there's no > > substitute for auditing by someone one trusts. There's too much free > > software for anyone to do this alone but collectively we can get more of > > this done. > > > > Considering that this is an issue that would affect nearly all distros, > it may be a good idea to setup a central collective group for auditing > software. This would help in various regards: [...] > Certain conditions would be needed to make sure that the effort is as > distribution-agnostic as possible, but I believe such an effort would > greatly benefit the free software community. It would be a very big effort, but probably useless because it would remain a couple of big problems: - "cleaning" software do not "clean" hardware, that is closed (and almost certainly will remain so) and is where the most dangerous malware resides - in my (heretic) opinion, free software have two "big" bugs: allows commercial use (which attracts the worst "intentions") and has the LGPL (which allows any non-free software -- including malware -- to fall through the back door) Regards -- al3xu5 / dotcommon Say NO to copyright, patents, trademarks and any industrial design restrictions. ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss