Re: Assange and NSA
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 11:20 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 05/27/2014 11:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote:
> >> Ahoj,
> >>
> >> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce
> >> <me_buss777@yahoo.fr> napísal:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would
> >>> like to have your advice on that article :
> >>>
> >>> http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/julian-assange-debian-is-owned-by-the-nsa/
> >>
> >> From end of the article:
> >>
> >> "UPDATE: Wikileaks is officially denying that Julian Assange literally
> >> said “Debian Is Owned By The NSA”."
> >>
> [...]
> > Hahaha, I assent to the view of Tamer Higazi, join a conspiracy forum
> > and start hunting bigfoot and shapeshifters. Sure, the NSA likely hacked
> > some FLOSS code we are using, but the NSA unlikely has taken over
> > absolute control. They likely have got absolute control over American
> > computer companies like Apple and Microsoft, but they never ever have
> > the same power for open source.
>
> Re: will debian issue a statement regarding Assange talk?
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2014/04/msg00005.html
The important reply IMO is this one:
"On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:39:58AM -0300, Andre Felipe Machado wrote:
> Will Debian Project issue a statement regarding Assange talk citing
> Debian ssl?
>
> People are asking about the subject on communities and even directly.
>
Hi Andre,
I'm not really sure what you mean by the project making a statement, or
really feel that it's appropriate for us to do so. Assange was pointing
out that the Open Source development methodology isn't immune to
mistakes being made in software, but they do at least get spotted.
I'm not sure that there's anything to respond to in that comment.
Neil" - https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2014/04/msg00003.html
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