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[News] Germany's National Security Another Reason to Choose Linux

  • Subject: [News] Germany's National Security Another Reason to Choose Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:48:03 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Secret services to fend off targeted trojan attacks

,----[ Quote ]
| Professional spies in the service of the state are often behind these 
| targeted attacks. In the last year, Chinese secret services in particular 
| have repeatedly been accused of carrying out especially tenacious trojan 
| attacks. Computers in the German Chancellor's office have reportedly even 
| been infected. Estonia has also accused the Russian government of having 
| waged cyberwar on its critical network infrastructure.     
`----

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/101475/from/rss09

They really ought to just move to Linux more quickly. Spies have already
intruded Germany's government PCs. Also in the news:

CIS certification for Linux security product.

,----[ Quote ]
| Trusted Computer Solutions has announced that Security Blanket, the company’s 
| system lock-down and security management tool, has been certified by the 
| Centre for Internet Security (CIS) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Level 1 
| and 2 Benchmark v1.0.5. This certification is based on Security Blanket’s 
| ability to enable systems administrators to automatically compare the 
| configuration status of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 systems to the 
| Level 1 and 2 CIS Benchmarks for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v1.0.5.      
`----

http://www.prosecurityzone.com/News-Story.asp?NewsID=1952

On the other hand, Germany might want its citizens to run Windows because
spying is now common practise and Linux has no back doors like Windows
(it's 'too' secure).


Related:

Germany, UK also investigating government PC espionage by China

,----[ Quote ]
| In recent weeks, the Chinese have been accused not only of hacking the 
| Pentagon, but also several German ministries and key sites in the UK, as 
| well. In doing research for an upcoming story on the Pentagon attacks, I 
| stumbled upon recent reports in Germany of surprisingly similar activity.   
`----

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070909-germany-uk-also-investigating-government-pc-espionage-by-china.html


German spyware plans trigger row

,----[ Quote ]
| The e-mails would contain Trojans - software that secretly installs itself on 
| suspects' computers, allowing agents to search the hard drives. 
`----

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6973018.stm


Estonia suspects Kremlin in Web attacks

,----[ Quote ]
| He said more than 1 million computers worldwide have been used in
| recent weeks to attack Estonian government and business Web sites
| since a dispute arose with Moscow over Estonia's moving of a
| Soviet-era war memorial from downtown Tallinn.
`----

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/17/estonia.cyber.attacks.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech


China Crafts Cyberweapons

,----[ Quote ]
| The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare
| units and developing viruses.
`----

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132284-pg,1/article.html(News)


Germany Police Union Wants GNU/Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| The demand of the police union now is to drop the Microsoft-based software 
| and to reconsider the usage of free and open source systems instead. 
`----

http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=506


Open Document Format gains more support

,----[ Quote ]
| The position of the German Foreign Office, as host of the event, was made 
| very clear. The Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in his 
| opening word, called ODF "a completely open and ISO-standardized format", 
| considering it an "excellent basis" for "a free exchange of knowledge and 
| information in a time of globalization". The Foreign Office has already 
| linked its foreign missions in a network using open-source programs and  
| shifted to OpenOffice and Linux operation systems on their laptops and has in 
| view to extend this program to all diplomatic workstations by the middle of 
| 2008.       
`----

http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.21/odf-workshop


German Universities Tap Novell for Infrastructure Needs

,----[ Quote ]
| The agreement will give 560,000 students and employees across 33 universities 
| access to key enterprise management and Linux services from Novell, including 
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.  
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070828/aqtu041.html?.v=29


Linux employment in German schools rises 

,----[ Quote ]
| According to a study of the computer science Dienstleisters DLGI the German 
| schools invest into computer science instruction, whereby Linux and 
| OpenOffice.org are increasingly used.  
| 
| The Microsoft monopoly at the schools, which is to be at present about 99%, 
| will crumble in the coming two years, found DLGI out in the study. In this 
| period new PC systems want to purchase, over 40% also new Office software 
| over 50% of the asked schools. Many look actively for alternatives to 
| Microsoft.    
`----

http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&num=50&u=http%3A//www.pro-linux.de/news/2007/11520.html
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2007/11520.html


Primary school goes Ubuntu

,----[ Quote ]
| I prepared 5 CDs and installed 14 PCs in less than two hours,
| including account setup and Firefox preparation (start page to a
| kids friendly site, Adblock).
`----

http://www.gadgetguy.de/2007/03/12/primary-school-goes-ubuntu/


Linux and real-time Java power German traffic lights

,----[ Quote ]
| A major European vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is porting 
| its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java.
`----

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2015665496.html


Linux and real-time Java power German traffic lights

,----[ Quote ]
| A major European vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is porting 
| its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java.
`----

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2015665496.html


German parliament plans to pursue open source strategy further

,----[ Quote ]
| The administration behind the Bundestag has reacted to criticism from 
| the Linux Association concerning the call for tenders for an IT
| project. 
`----

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/88796


LinuxTag: Berlin to make better use of its open-source

,----[ Quote ]
| At the opening of the trade fairs LinuxTag and IT-Profits the
| Senator of Economics of the German federal state of Berlin 
| Harald Wolf announced in Berlin on Wednesday that his 
| department would from 2008 on be switching to Linux. 
`----

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/90396/from/rss09


German government plans to use open document formats in its administration

,----[ Quote ]
| In addition, the German government says that its "Advancing
| eGovernment" conference held at the end of February in Berlin
| also provided impetus for greater use of open standards in
| information technology both in industry and in public administration.
| As a result of this conference, the German government plans to
| implement open document formats in its administration.
`----

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/89135/from/rss09


Canonical and NT+C Südwest GmbH Partner to Deliver Ubuntu Certified
Professional Training in Germany

,----[ Quote ]
| "The uptake of Linux in Germany has increased dramatically over the 
| past two years. Canonical produces the fastest growing and most
| popular Linux distribution, partnering with them is of great
| importance not only to us, but to German businesses," added Hugo
| Schröer, CEO at NT+C Südwest GmbH.
`----

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/3/prweb513886.htm


City of Munich is looking for additional Linux specialists (technical system
integration)

,----[ Quote ]
| You can join the limux client team! The City of Munich published four
| job vacancies on their official homepage! If you?ve always been a fan
| of the open-source movement, want to take part in an ambitious project
| and be part of a great team and have appropriate knowledge of free
| software generally, as well as Debian GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org
`----

http://www.marsmenschen.com/index.php/2006/12/22/city-of-munich-is-looking-for-additional-linux-specialists-technical-system-integration/


Firefox, Linux, Mac OSX gaining further momentum, Microsoft losing
marketshare in Germany

,----[ Quote ]
| In Germany, the move away from Microsoft products is gathering more and
| more steam.
| 
| The latest browser and OS statistics for SpiegelOnline, one of or maybe
| THE most visited German news website (and one of the major websites
| worldwide according to the Netcraft statistics) is showing the huge
| impact of Firefox on the browser market, and the continuing,
| undamped crumbling of the Internet Explorer dominance.
`----

http://vale.homelinux.net/wordpress/?p=110


German Linux Trade Group to MS: Be Specific About Patents - It's the Law

(in German)

,----[ Quote ]
| "Ballmer's assertion must be viewed as the typical Microsoft approach
| to alienate the market by spreading rumors or threats", said the
| official representative of the Linux related companies in Germany
| in a statement made in Berlin on November 27th 2006. "This is
| obviously part of a PR campaign related to the market launch of
| Windows Vista....If Microsoft cannot show evidence to support
| their claims, then they are outside the boundaries of German
| competition regulations. We call upon Microsoft to either prove
| their case, or to refrain from making such unfounded statements.
| Furthermore, we call upon European Politicians to protect open
| competition in Europe. In particular, small and mid sized companies,
| which form the majority of European Linux service providers, need to
| be protected from tedious legal disputes resulting from pretended
| assertions of Microsoft."
`----

http://www.linux-verband.de/Home-News-Single-Ansicht.305+M5b33a2bc073.0.html?&tx_ttnews[backPid]=19&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=363


Public sector drives open-source takeup

,----[ Quote ]
| In September, Munich began its migration to Linux on the desktop.
| The city switched the first 100 of its 14,000 PCs from Microsoft's
| Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux and
| OpenOffice.
`----

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/15/HNopensourcetakeup_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/15/HNopensourcetakeup_1.html
http://tinyurl.com/y5b9qk


Open Source facilitates German world-wide secure network

,----[ Quote ]
| With respect to Open Source, the AA is serious about migrating all
| its Windows desktops to Linux. But before that, and to be independent
| in the long run as well, all the applications that are used
| internally are being rewritten as web-applications.
`----

http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/2204/470


Linux reaches the Italian Parliament

,----[ Quote ]
| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan 
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate 
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the 
| Chamber.   
| 
| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and 
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private) 
| computers to the Free System.  
`----

http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/


The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu

,----[ Quote ]
| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to 
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report 
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The 
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the 
| tax-payers according to the government study.
`----

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814


Socialist Party Netherlands wants to abolish Windows monopoly

,----[ Quote ]
| She asked the minister of state if he is prepared to ask the Dutch Rivalry 
| Authority NMa (Institution that controls economical abuse, competition etc.) 
| to research if Microsoft is in an illegal monopoly position at the moment.  
`----

http://mckooiker.byethost5.com/blog/?p=47


Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/10/13/dutch_consumer_association_declares_war/


Open source test successful

,----[ Quote ]
| 28 September 2007 - A test with open source software has been successful and 
| there are no technical impediments to introducing such software in the entire 
| municipal organisation, Amsterdam announced this week at a meeting organised 
| by the Ministry of the Interior.   
`----

http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source_success.htm


Dutch political party's youth department switching to open source software

,----[ Quote ]
| DWARS, the youth department of Dutch political party GroenLinks, wants open 
| source software to be the standard for computers and internet. 
`----

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Dutch_politcal_party_s_youth_department_switching_to_open_source_software


Decision on open source in December

,----[ Quote ]
| If the outcome is positive, 10,000 municipality employees will change to open 
| source software. 
`----

http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source.htm


Netherlands Picks ODF

,----[ Quote ]
| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will 
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for 
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.  
`----

http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html

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