Hi I know some of the list members are with Canonical and some others are concerned with security.
The essay linked here http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying has this statement * * *"We can make surveillance expensive again. In particular, we need open protocols, open implementations, open systems – these will be harder for the NSA to subvert."* So what is the relevance of Linux in general and of specific distributions. I can foresee it being easy for distributions to be bullied into putting in place backdoors in their OS. Will this be easier to "catch" by the larger community or will it slip through . The ordinary linux user - even the normal geek is going to head to the nearest OS distribution servers to downlond the OS and the packages from the repos - so how difficult would it be to engender trust in a distributions "official repos" Are there independent reviews of the code base for different Linux distributions. Seems to me that those paranoid about security would head towards compiling from source or get it from repos that are much viewed and used across many distributions (like the debian base) look forward to hearing more thoughts on this meanwhile google has yet more mail to crunch with NSA + Security + Linux being bandied about in a mail :-) Ram _________________________________________________________ Himal Prakriti - Information on Uttarakhand Floods and Post Flood Scenario Amazing Indians: Transforming lives in the hills Homestay with a difference
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