On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM, AG <computing.acco...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Doug Milam <doug_mi...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? >>> >>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html >>> >>> NSA also helped Linux with SElinux. As long as OpenBSD remains open source, >>> >> I don't see the problem. >> >> >> > > Depends on whether one trusts the NSA or not. > >
It also depends on whether one trusts the OpenBSD devs, and the OpenBSD packagers, and the upstream ports providers, (and for most users), the mirror admins. Like, obviously the NSA's mandate is spying but so long as Linux and OpenBSD are open source we (or more realistically, someone with the deep knowledge and time) can check the code for 'bugs'. Intel's binary blobs should be scarier than the NSA for us (though the situation might be different for Windows users). -Nic
