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to: Adam Flinton
from: Geo.
date: 2003-04-24 18:07:00
subject: Re: US Gov sez: Open Source enables terrorists

From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3ea85ca5{at}w3.nls.net...

> Including your Internal/ "homeland" Security spooks......

it's a judgement call, which is greater benefit, allowing all internals to
have as secure a software environment as possible or limit then so you can
get at the crazies but at the cost of a less secure infrastructure?
Personally, I'd go for the secure and use other methods to get at the
crazies.

> Yup & they can control the big proprietary boxes like Sun & IBM shift.
> Can't do that with x86....

Wonder what will happen with hardware DRM components..

Geo.

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