> heretic wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just been reading in the C_FIT Release Community mailing lists >> that updates to Windows XP will include surveillance software, >> including key logging and other nasties. >> >> It's likely that most XP users will have M$ Update switched on, and >> will inadvertently install software that completely eliminates their >> privacy, and they won't even know that such software is running. >> >> With keylogging (and other pieces of) software, even PGP becomes >> completely useless. >> >> One could cynically speculate that in co-operating such with the FBI, >> M$ may be trying to gain some clemency from DoJ for its >> anti-competitive crimes. > > > This is why I use Linux. > > MS Windows is now a potential agent for the extension of the growing > American police state. > > The machinery is all there.....all we need now is the venal politicians > to make use of it. As Nixon and Reagan both did as far as they were > able..... >
<quote> >If you own a PC, you've got your own software factory. If you can write good software, multi-billion pound companies need you -- but you could string together the words and numbers that shape the world as well from a bedroom in Calcutta as from their plush offices in Silicon Valley. The consumers own the means of production, the workers hold all the cards: welcome to the future, a world where the anarchy of software economics has the potential to overturn capitalism. Or, alternatively, there's the doomsday scenario: "We are about to enter an age that would have thrilled all the dictators of the past. An age where machines can be a totally obedient, non-human, police force allowing absolute control over the movement and interaction of every individual," says Tony Stanco of the embryonic radical software company FreeDevelopers.net. To him there is a war on. If things keep going as they are now, before we know it the profit-making strategies of "proprietary" companies such as Microsoft will leave us with our communications, commerce and, potentially, democracy controlled by programmes no-one can scrutinise and few can understand; created and marketed to us by unaccountable billionaires: "Since proprietary software is by definition unseen code not subject to scrutiny by the public, it gives too much power to a few, unelected businessmen, mostly from the US. Looking back on human history, nightmarish scenarios cannot be hard to imagine," says Stanco. </quote> http://www.redpepper.org.uk/intarch/x-open-source.html _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
