On 8/8/15, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
Quoting Peter Ross (petrosssit@gmail.com):
Open Source is the only chance not to lose privacy forever, and the biggest player, Linux, has crucial software replaced by a quite unruly mob. It will make it quiet hard to implement light-weight and safe IT solutions.
Snowden showed we've been far too complaisant about critical infrastructure security. The only way I know to improve that situation is attending to fundamentals: excess complexity/functionality, excess privilege, unnecessary trust, unnecessary code, lack of enforced policy, lack of well-planned and documented functionality and interconnections, default-permit, lack of alert monitoring, lack of roles with planned and defined rights.
Marauding three-letter agencies need to be kicked out, period. We of the open source community _should_ be responding to the Snowden challenge by caution, careful scrutiny, and paring down of software complexity -- particularly on server systems, with or without distro help. For that reason alone, among other things, inits prone to make black-box queries to weird and reliable desktop software (e.g., PolKit) to decide on what actions are permitted on the host, are plainly unacceptable as antithetical to deterministic system operation.
Thanks. I think you stated clearly what I think and what I hope for. An apology to the original poster for sidetracking. Unfortunately I am not the right person to help with the closing lid. Regards Peter