[ale] [Fwd: Pirate Banned from Using Linux]
Michael B. Trausch
mike at trausch.us
Fri Aug 24 14:28:00 EDT 2007
Jeff Lightner, on 08/24/2007 12:58 PM said:
>
> The bigger picture here is that the government seems to know it can
> easily monitor someone using Windoze. They aren't so sure about
> Linux.
>
> When I worked in telecom it disgusted me that the government
> regularly created regulations or laws that REQUIRED back doors into
> phone systems. Rather than requiring good old fashioned police work
> to catch criminals they want to be able to spy on all of us on the
> off chance we are criminals.
>
Yuck.
Didn't the government argue to try to require a back door for PGP, as well?
-- Mike
--
Michael B. Trausch Internet Mail & Jabber: mike at trausch.us
Phone: (404) 592-5746 x1 http://www.trausch.us/
Mobile: (678) 522-7934 VoIP: 6453 at sip.trausch.us, 861384 at fwd
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 252 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
More information about the Ale
mailing list