Open source gaining traction in U.S. government
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| More than half of all U.S. government executives have rolled out open-source
| software at their agencies, and 71 percent believe their agency can benefit
| from open-source software, according to a survey.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071102/tc_infoworld/93089
Ideally, the government wants everyone to use Windows (reasons listed below).
Only the government should be permitted use secure software like Linux (the
same goes for Germany and Austria). It's quite disgusting when the
authorities /want/ people to use slopware.
Related:
NSA writes more potent malware than hacker
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| A project aimed at developing defences against malware that attacks unpatched
| vulnerabilities involved tests on samples developed by the NSA.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/28/nsa_hacker_malware_defense_project/
NSA Builds Security Access Into Windows
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| A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has shown that special access
| codes for use by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been secretly
| built into all versions of the Windows operating system.
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990903S0014
FBI ducks questions about its remotely installed spyware
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| There are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we
| reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted
| in a suspect's computer remotely.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747666-7.html
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux
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| Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have
| his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that
| wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he
| is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored-by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/
Austria OKs terror snooping Trojan plan
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| Austria has become one of the first countries to officially sanction the use
| of Trojan Horse malware as a tactic for monitoring the PCs of suspected
| terrorists and criminals.
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| Would-be terrorists need only use Ubuntu Linux to avoid the ploy. And even if
| they stuck with Windows their anti-virus software might detect the malware.
| Anti-virus firms that accede to law enforcement demands to turn a blind eye
| to state-sanctioned malware risk undermining trust in their software, as
| similar experience in the US has shown.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/teutonic_trojan/
Schäuble renews calls for surreptitious online searches of PCs
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| In his speech towards the end of the national conference of the Junge Union,
| the youth organization of the ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union
| (CDU), in Berlin the Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble has
| again come out in favor of allowing authorities to search private PCs
| secretly online and of deploying the German Armed Forces in Germany in the
| event of an emergency.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/97755/from/rss09
German spyware plans trigger row
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| The e-mails would contain Trojans - software that secretly installs itself on
| suspects' computers, allowing agents to search the hard drives.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6973018.stm
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