Berikut ini artikel ttg "dengar pendapat" yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah
Denmark terhadap masalah sekuriti sistem infomrasi (kapan pemerintah kita
memulainya...?). Tapi tampaknya hasil akhir memang lebih berperan pada
"pendekatan" ketimbang hasil dengar pendapat. Apa memagn seperti itu
berjalannya sistem "politik" ? Mudah-mudahan tidak.
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http://www.sslug.dk/presse/2000-01-29.html
Open Source is a hot topic in Denmark
2000-01-29
Monday January 17th the Danish Ministry of Research held a hearing about
which strong encryption tools and/or protocols the Danish government
should use for communication with the citizens.
The minister of research, Birte Weiss, opened the hearing. She mentioned
Echelon as one of the reasons for arranging this hearing. "The Danish
government can not do anything to protect the Danish citizens from foreign
intelligence agencies, and each individual is encouraged to use encryption
software" Birte Weiss said.
The hearing ranged from secure e-commerce solutions to encryption of
e-mail. Several software products were presented by Hewlett Packard,
Utimaco, Network Associates, iD2 Technologies, IBM Denmark, Cryptomatic,
Microsoft Research, Baltimore Technologies. The Free Software Community
was represented by Werner Koch, author and project leader on the GnuPG
(GNU privacy guard) project.
At the first announcement of the hearing, December 17th 1999, no Open
Source software was represented. This caused a mail storm on SSLUG's
mailing-lists and Werner Koch was invited by SSLUG to represent GnuPG..
The Danish Ministry of Research was asked to have Werner Koch on the panel
and to cover the travel expenses.
While some of the companies simply did a commercial presentation, it is
worth noticing that Stefek Zaba from Hewlett Packard (HP) also presented
FreeSWAN, GnuPG and OpenSSL as valuable products they offer to their
customers. HP offers a lot of security solutions to their customers and
use Open Source software whenever they believe this is the best solution
for the customer.
After the vendor presentations, representatives from the IT Security
Council questioned the vendors.
SSLUG was strongly represented with approximately 15 of the 250 attendees
at the hearing. When the audience had the possibility to pose questions to
the panel, SSLUG members raised roughly half of the questions, such as
"What will happen if your company goes bankrupt?" - the long-term goal
with hearing is to choose a solution for all encrypted digital
communication in Denmark, so this was not a question to neglect. Only IBM
and Microsoft dared to answer. IBM responded "We have a lot of partners so
it isn't a problem."
Even more interesting was the "how do you prevent back-doors in you
product?". Most companies stated that third-party reviewers could be
allowed to check the source code given that they conform to a NDA (non
disclosure agreement). The representatives for GnuPG and PGP had an easy
task here. Roger Needham from Microsoft managed to make the whole audience
laugh by stating that "If our product contains a back-door, we simply
don't know anything about it...."
After the presentation of all the products there was a panel discussion
with the IT Security Council and the audience.
The following Thursday Jan Carlsen from the IT Security Council was in the
Danish radio. Here he stated that "it would probably be a Microsoft
solution" which the council would suggest to the Danish government. This
was clearly not the picture we got from attending the hearing.
The current task of the IT Security Council is now to make a proposal to
the Danish government which will be released in the first week of March
2000.
Regarding Open Source software, the Danish left-wing party 'Socialistisk
Folkeparti' had a press release on Sunday January 16th where they
proposed, as it has been in France too, that the government should use
Open Source Software.
A summary of that week was that Open Source software was mentioned several
times in the Danish media. Newspapers, IT magazines and radio. Loosely
counted it was more than 15 exposes within a week which is quite well in a
country with only 5 million citizens.
But it is not only the left wing in the Danish parliament who has heard of
Open Source. Back in October 1999 the right-wing party 'Frihed 2000'
brought up the problems that software patents will give Open Source
developers, if they are introduced in Denmark.
SSLUG - Skne Sjlland Linux User Group is a Swedish/Danish LUG with more
than 4700 members, and a lot of activities through mailing lists,
meetings, and conferences.
Further reading
Written presentations for the hearing
http://www.sslug.dk/misc/kryptering-20000117
'Socialistisk Folkeparti' "demands open source"
http://lwn.net/2000/0120/commerce.phtml
Skne Sjlland Linux User Group
http://www.sslug.dk/
Contact
CIO Hans Schou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CPO Peter Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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