THis is a second essay http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance
and the short article is here https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html Ram _________________________________________________________ Himal Prakriti - Information on Uttarakhand Floods and Post Flood Scenario Amazing Indians: Transforming lives in the hills Homestay with a difference On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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