Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:51:18 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days! Message-ID: <201309231851.MAA14047@mail.lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <CE65ABAF.125A5%vmiller@verisign.com> References: <CE65ABAF.125A5%vmiller@verisign.com>
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All: It's good to see corporate support of BSD, but at the same time I have mixed feelings about certain corporations -- Verisign among them -- hosting BSD-related conferences or becoming involved in the development of BSD-based operating systems. Why? Because Verisign, based in Reston, Virginia (the city next door to Vienna, VA, home of the NSA), has strong ties to this shadowy agency. The NSA, in turn -- as reported in documents recently leaked by Edward Snowden -- has a very strong interest in weakening the security of cryptographic algorithms, cryptographic software, and operating systems. We may want to look this gift horse very carefully in the mouth, or at least monitor very closely "contributions" of code that might introduce backdoors or weaknesses. --Brett Glass
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