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Open Source Software May Offer Target for Terrorists
According to
this press release, open-source software makes terrorism
easy.
"Opening the Open Source Debate", a soon to be released white
paper by Alexis de Tocqueville Institution details the complex issues
surrounding open source, particularly if federal agencies such as the
Department of Defense or the Federal Aviation Administration use
software that inherently requires that its blueprints, source code and
architecture is made widely available to any person interested -
without discretion.
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Open Source Software May Offer Target for Terrorists Posted May 31, 2002 13:18 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] A very odd conclusion considering this statement: http://www.adti.net/mission.html (unfortunately a picture of a paragraph of text).
Open Source Software May Offer Target for Terrorists Posted Jun 5, 2002 13:57 UTC (Wed) by raindog (guest, #1235) [Link] The Alexis de Tocqueville institution is a "free market" think tank. By "liberal" in their mission statement they pretty much mean "libertarian", which nowadays is like the opposite of liberal due to its focus on ensuring big corporations are free to get bigger.
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