Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:55:38 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days! Message-ID: <201309240055.r8O0tcGl079985@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:29:27 EDT." <l1q8b0$9co$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Hi, Good points in Brett & Michael's posts, but for brevity not copied. Best avoid having code written & reviewed just in USA as it would get less trust globaly, NSA is a known alien mega spy, & USA even coerces non USA citizens outside USA, eg http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/01/gary-mckinnon-extradition-nightmare http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/ukhomeoffice-stop-the-extradition-of-richard-o-dwyer-to-the-usa-saverichard Best encourage FreeBSD sources to be used & suspiciously reviewed by a variety of programmers & mathematicians/ cryptologists from different backgrounds & countries; Max chance of loophole reporting with more people from a spectrum of countries with rival mutualy distrusting governments from such as eg { Britain, China, France, Germany, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Syria, USA } etc. Presumably nearly all of us are cluless on crypto. math. so meantime encourage involvement of citizens of at least a few different dis-trusting countries. Kernels perhaps have less reviewers than cross-OS S/W eg GPG & Open-SSH etc, so kernels might be target of choice of suborners ? Maybe FreeBSD Foundation could set up a cheap bonus scheme for security bugs exposed/ fixed - Special edition coffee mugs, non purchasable, sent only as a reward, posted globaly free. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative.
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