Re: Assange and NSA
On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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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