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Re: "Freedom Corps" vs. Software Security?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Mon Jul 22 12:42:56 2002

Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:31:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020722105430.GA3802@danisch.de>

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> Can american software be trusted anymore, when the
> US government wants to turn 4% of the US citizens
> into spys? 

Wrong question. The right (albeit rhetorical) question: can closed source
software, regardless of its point of origin, be trusted, at least in
principle?

The answer for most people should be: no.


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