Re: stopping mass surveillance

[operation.privacyenforcement@secure.mailbox.org]

Dan Ritter wrote:
> operation.privacyenforcement@mailbox.org wrote:
> > On 1/9/84 19:84, Jeremy Hendricks message was saved by the all seeing eye:
> > > Please provide code examples, flow chart, or a white paper.
> >
> > Releasing anything of requested documents is not desired yet. The idea is
> > not patented yet and will make the developers a high value target for a lot
> > of agencies worldwide.
>
> If your project is going to be patented, it can't be part of
> Debian unless you want to give a patent license to everyone in
> the world, which defeats the point of patenting it in the first
> place.

A patent can protect only a brand or product name.

> > I am looking for people, developers, companies that would be interested in
> > using or developing such a solution, planning a commercial high price launch
> > on the market, licensed will be current revisions. Older revisions with less
> > features or security will be released under an open source license. If this
> > is impossible I am open minded to release the idea confidentially to a
> > trustworthy developer group of an open source project to let them develop it
> > and make it available as FLOSS completely for everyone. It needs to be built
> > before privacy is dead, with or without earning money. It needs to be
> > enforced before we will loose privacy forever.
>
> > Governments, police, politicians will be excluded via license in any case.
>
> None of the open source licenses that Debian will accept can be
> limited in that way, so, again, Debian is not the home for your
> project.

This

>> I am open minded to release the idea confidentially to a
>> trustworthy developer group of an open source project to let them 
develop it
>> and make it available as FLOSS completely for everyone. It needs to 
be built
>> before privacy is dead, with or without earning money. It needs to be
>> enforced before we will loose privacy forever.

would match Debians policies?

> > Curious about everyones opinion regarding this.
>
> It might be interesting, but it's definitely not suitable for
> this mailing list.

I wanted to request a feedback how important this topic seems to be for 
the Debian user base, would you use it? Would you prefer it to be open 
source? Do you feel unprotected on Debian? Do you think this is neccessary?
Later I want to find potentially interested developers if the Debian 
priciples would be applied and released completely FLOSS.

The release of the solution is more important then profit.

operation privacyenforcement