Freedom Corps vs. Software Security?

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

I just read the latest news in german news
magazine DER SPIEGEL
(http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,206079,00.html
for those who understand german)

about Bush's Freedom Corps and the TIPS starting
in August (Terrorism Information and Prevention System).

They also mentioned that civil rights were simply 
turned off in the US after Sep11, e.g. a man was
arrested and is still in jail for nothing more than
just telling his opinion (the so called freedom of speech).


The question is: 

Can american software be trusted anymore, when the
US government wants to turn 4% of the US citizens
into spys? If they already want to use common
people as plumbers, electricians etc. as spys, 
isn't it obvious that they will use a thing like
software as well?

Some years ago it was like this:

american software = good, trusted, friends, democracy
russian software  = evil, made by an empire for espionage

Is it possible that they are currently switching
positions?


(Not to insult anyone, just to start a discussion...)

Hadmut






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Re: Freedom Corps vs. Software Security?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

 Can american software be trusted anymore, when the
 US government wants to turn 4% of the US citizens
 into spys? 

Wrong question. The right (albeit rhetorical) question: can closed source
software, regardless of its point of origin, be trusted, at least in
principle?

The answer for most people should be: no.


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