The Helsinki Times reports that Finland's Minister of Finance suggested during a recent foreign policy speech that Finland and the EU could pursue self-sufficiency in computing, in particular to avoid over dependence on just a handful of companies. She pointed out that this overreliance on said companies has become so severe that company policy has already started to override existing relevant legislation. The topic had earlier been brought up by President Sauli Niinistö. So far, though, not even Russia has made progress in that direction despite over a decade passing since announcing plans.
"Cyber self-sufficiency, in practical terms, could mean having a European operating system and web browser. The EU could also function as a provider of certificates," she envisioned in a foreign and security policy speech in Helsinki on Wednesday, 26 February.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday February 28 2020, @06:15AM (2 children)
FTFY
I mean, how would something that is merely an init system interfere with encryption of your home directory? [launchpad.net]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday February 28 2020, @06:26AM (1 child)
I just noticed that the page I linked to didn't mention systemd; my source was in German and linked to that page; I neglected to scan that page for mention of systemd, sorry about that.
Here's the German page: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/ecryptfs/ [ubuntuusers.de]
Quote of the relevant part:
Translation:
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday February 28 2020, @07:12AM
first they came for encfs and i didn't speak up because there was ecryptfs
then they came for ecryptfs and i didn't speak up because all my speeches were in the encfs dir and i lost the key.
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