On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 22:26 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20130619_224412, Greg wrote: > > Does anyone think that debian could participate in any > programs like > > PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a > > backdoor or something that could collect private info in the binary > > packages distributed by debian? > > Maybe, way back, CIA and NSA brain storming dreamed up the idea of > interconnecting the whole world with a gigantic interconnected signaling > system that could be used to keep track of everybody everywhere without them > realizing they were being watched. They secretly gave money to college prof.s > of EE to invent it for the purpose of well intended mind control. Also, money > to support science labs. that generated lots of data, so that they would > invent techniques for handling really massive data sets. ;-) > > -- > Paul E Condon > pecon...@mesanetworks.net > >
An even wackier thought is that everyone would absolutely love practically broadcasting their gps location, most of their private info and the politically active would do most of their activism and organize protests on a system with such an insecure system. And we all know no host at debian.org has ever been hacked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371741601.11007.14.ca...@fast.cercy.net
