__/ [ peterwn ] on Friday 16 March 2007 07:44 \__
> On Mar 16, 5:42 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> File sharing could threaten personal and national security
>
>> They also go against torrents while encouraging DRM, back doors, and other
>> things which assume everyone is a criminal and a pirate. This is a threat
>> to digital freedom and free software as well.
>
> Seems the USPTO has fallen into the trap of issuing a report that
> parrots Microsoft propaganda. And this by an agency not really
> concerned with national security. The naive author seems to think if
> P2P was banned, leaked Government documents would somehow stop
> propagating.
I tagged this story "terror culture" when filing (or "fear culture", playing
right into the hands of the offender, therefore calling for more). That's
probably how Bruce S. would describe the biggest driver in America these
days.
> A New Zealand agency fell into a similar trap but the innacuracies
> were quickly pointed out by the computer community and were put right.
>
> Those agencies concerned with *real* security would not trust windows
> anyway. They are most probably using some hardened form of Unix or
> Linux. Imagine the Chinese trusting Windows for their state secrets,
> you have to be kidding.
New Zealand in general is a place where Linux is becoming very popular very
quickly. They probably have people with the needed skills as well (the
inertia factor).
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