Re: hackathon hotel/unbelievable

[Fábio Olivé Leite <foleite_(_at_)_yahoo_(_dot_)_com_(_dot_)_br>]

Em Qua 23 Abr 2003 20:14, Rick J. Andrews escreveu:
>    The OpenBSD community should be aware that it possesses a
> valuable and potentially dangerous commodity, that could be made
> illegal for use ...

So, you mean that if one suddenly educates oneself to the point of 
being able to write one's own secure operating system, he could be 
considered a criminal? Bah.

> ... within national boundaries ...

I asssume you mean "... within USA boundaries ...". Well, if freedom 
in USA becomes so endangered as to one not being able to run a 
preferred OS, one ought to pack one's stuff up and go live somewhere 
else. This is so absurd.

> ... (and interdicted outside of them).

Sorry? Interdict a certain computer program from being executed 
outside of USA boundaries? By what authority?

No one in the USofA, no matter how authoritative one is inside the 
country, has a say whatsoever on the future of OpenBSD (unless [s]he 
is a developer in the project), and even less so on my usage of it 
(even the developers) here in the rest of the world.

> I think, therefore it wise to accept the use of secure
> software as a privilege, like a driver's license, that can be
> revoked.

It is certainly not a privilege, it's a right. I can run whatever 
software I want on my boxes, as long as I'm not infringing any 
patents or licensing issues. Which I clearly don't do by running 
OpenBSD.

Perhaps you read Orwell's 1984 now and got paranoid.

Imagine the encryption police slamming my door down and taking me 
under custody for running a web server that was too secure. "Why do 
you use ssl?? Got something to hide??". Nah. I don't need to be so 
paranoid.

> Otherwise we risk falling victim to our own hubris.

"we". You see, I think you've been "planted" in this list by some 
agency in order to establish some "empathy" with the community and 
then start spreading FUD. Now I'm the one being paranoid. :)

Ha ha only serious.

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          Fábio Olivé Leite (foleite at yahoo.com.br)
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