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on Saturday April 25 2015, @04:16PM
from the we-can-trust-the-gubmint-for-encryption-and-security dept.
from the we-can-trust-the-gubmint-for-encryption-and-security dept.
A study by European IT security experts suggests that the EU should also fund or participate in the development of open source software to ensure end-to-end encryption solutions. Using open source is not a universal remedy, they state, but it is an “important ingredient in an EU strategy for more security and technological independence.” The experts say support for open source will increase the EU’s technological independence.
A second study for this committee meeting argues that the use of open source computer operating systems and applications reduces the risk of privacy intrusion by mass surveillance.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ep-study-%E2%80%9Ceu-should-finance-key-open-source-tools%E2%80%9D
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by AnonTechie on Sunday April 26 2015, @08:15AM
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. - Milton Friedman
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:51AM
1) That Milton Friedman said it doesn't prove it right.
2) The sentence as quoted says "usually", thus even Milton Friedman accepted that sometimes the government solution is an improvement.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Sunday April 26 2015, @12:24PM
That's why the Dutch government decided to accept the new metric system that its enemy, the French revolutionary government, had devised, in 1820.
The government rammed through this newfangled metrification idea, whereas everyone was used to weighing their cheeses with the Dutch pound (~ 480 g) or the Amsterdam pound (494 g) or the Flemish pound (~ 433 g) or the Gentish pound (430 g) or the Gorkumish pound (466 g) or the Utrecht pound (497 g) or several others depending on city or region or fraudulence of the cheesemongers.