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posted by CoolHand on Saturday April 25 2015, @04:16PM   Printer-friendly
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) by fritsd on Sunday April 26 2015, @12:24PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Sunday April 26 2015, @12:24PM (#175328) Journal

    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.

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