Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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Warrantless Intrusion: yet another reason for Using GNU/Linux (but it may not
be enough)
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| All manner of campaigns have been tried to persuade Windows users to make the
| switch to GNU/Linux and every year is heralded as the year of GNU/Linux on
| the desktop. Whether these things come to pass or not only time will tell,
| but the latest electronic assault on the integrity of computers which
| emanates from the British Government via a European directive might just tilt
| the balance in favour of free and open software. I suspect however that the
| hard-core Redmondnites will blunder on as usual making the internet a gold
| mine for any individual, corporation or government maliciously inclined to
| steal or plant information your computer. So, what exactly is warrantless
| intrusion?
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| I’m not a technical expert but it seems to me that the only theoretical way
| to defeat the government’s insatiable lust for information, power and control
| is to create an open source ISP funded by its members like some kind of
| modern Friendly Society which would be founded on democratic principles and
| funded by the members. It seems impossible but the Wikipedia project ought
| not to exist either — but it does. The other long shot is to pray for the
| sudden emergence of a technological singularity which moves so impossibly
| fast that governments cannot keep pace with counter measures. Failing that we
| all become Luddites and forswear computers and the internet entirely.
Homer
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| withdrawal symptoms would be horrendous. So, the technical hand, having
| written, cannot unwrite a single word. There is no going back. Uninventing
| technology is the stuff of dystopian fantasies.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/warrantless_intrusion_yet_another_reason_using_gnu_linux_it_may_not_be_enough
The EFF has just loudly protested. This is becoming a serious issue because
activists have their PCs confiscated.
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