G'day, From: "Slav Pidgorny(GPM)" <slav.pidgorny@anz.com>
On Behalf Of Peter Ross Of course, everything about the NSA is overblown. I just wonder why Assange and Snowden are not living peacefully at home.
I admit that mental jump from NSA to Snowden and Assange is not as long as that from systemd to NSA. Yet I was still wondering about systemd: are you suggesting it's created as a back door to your system?
And I don't like looking for hidden motives. That applies to Assange, Snowden and systemd equally.
"Hidden" is a lot these days. We just passed some "security laws" which prevents journalists from reporting about the ASIO. They could pay with 10 years of prison for reporting "on special missions" even if they do not know that it is one. The minister responsible for the laws even tells us it has nothing to do with journalism. The AFP threatens with more raids like the one in September (800 policemen and one person charged) it's like the Commis under the bed, just the Muslims these days. We cannot afford health care or education but a war.. well, isn't it nice to have another one? It did not work 1991, it did not work 2002 and there is no evidence that it works this time. But it makes money, a lot. 50 years ago the Americans bombed the Vietnamese back into stone age, these days we do it in the Middle East. Don't talk, don't report. The refugees are an ugly side effect. Just hide them. Let them go mad or commit suicide. All good. We have the camps without the gas chambers. Nature and time kills too, we do not have to do that. We are civilized. It's all very human, just as Theresienstadt. Or send them back for more torture as we do it with refugees from Afghanistan. Don't talk, don't report. In a meanwhile spy agencies are completely uncontrolled and infiltrated every piece of IT infrastructure. The spying on _all_ citizens is outperforming the East German Stasi by miles. And don't wonder why we love the cloud and put everything on servers but do not encrypt. Even if we could. And the most respectable community based GNU/Linux distribution gets hijacked by a team from a company so the foundation of the system comes completely under the control of a monoculture so you cannot escape it. Written by people who practically do not care about anything which is valued by the Linux/Unix community for nearly 50 years. Trustworthy like second hand car dealers. Nothing to report, all good.. Until now I have not needed many "hidden" motifs. "Widely ignored" describes it better. Good night Peter