On 8/8/15, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Peter Ross ([email protected]): > >> Open Source is the only chance not to lose privacy forever, and the biggest >> player, Linux, has crucial software replaced by a quite unruly mob. It will >> make it quiet hard to implement light-weight and safe IT solutions. > > Snowden showed we've been far too complaisant about critical > infrastructure security. The only way I know to improve that situation > is attending to fundamentals: excess complexity/functionality, excess > privilege, unnecessary trust, unnecessary code, lack of enforced policy, > lack of well-planned and documented functionality and interconnections, > default-permit, lack of alert monitoring, lack of roles with planned and > defined rights. > > Marauding three-letter agencies need to be kicked out, period. We of > the open source community _should_ be responding to the Snowden > challenge by caution, careful scrutiny, and paring down of software > complexity -- particularly on server systems, with or without distro > help. For that reason alone, among other things, inits prone to make > black-box queries to weird and reliable desktop software (e.g., PolKit) > to decide on what actions are permitted on the host, are plainly > unacceptable as antithetical to deterministic system operation.
Thanks. I think you stated clearly what I think and what I hope for. An apology to the original poster for sidetracking. Unfortunately I am not the right person to help with the closing lid. Regards Peter _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
