Lobbying for Insecurity

Lobbying for Insecurity
Jon Lasser, 2002-08-28

The NSA's Linux security project was so good it almost made up for that whole Echelon thing. Then politics entered the picture.

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Lobbying for Insecurity 2002-08-29
batz (1 replies)

Mr. Lasser neglects to mention that politicians respond to
their constituents, and then to their donors. The open source community has neither the numbers or the money to affect political change through lobbying in any traditional
sense.

OSS has always been a grassroots effort, and to succ...

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Lobbying for Insecurity 2002-09-03
Anonymous

Well, saying that being incompatible with widely used stuff doesn't increase security is wrong. Someone has to be the first adopter of any new technology, and even if something new doesn't get adopted, it tends to raise the bar for all the competitors out there which generally is a good thing, no? I...

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Lobbying for Insecurity 2002-08-30
Anonymous

SecureLinux ?, No Thanks....

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Lobbying for Insecurity 2002-09-03
Anonymous

"Constituency" is a nice way of saying "the people who own me." The open source community simply doesn't have the money required to buy back the legislators that MIcrosoft (and the other big software houses) already own. The only way things will change is if it becomes a liability for a decision-mak...

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Lobbying for Insecurity 2002-09-05
lpq

Agreed: cooperation is necessary to overcome the forces of market leaders.

Just as important as playing government level politics is the ability to play sand hill politics.

As you mention, Linux security is inferior to some BSD offerings. Some large part of this, as you hint, is due to politi...

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