[Sussex] Open Source Is Fertile Ground for Foul Play

[Mark Harrison]

The article was blatantly scaremongering.

It's interesting that one of the key "risks to government" that OpenSource
poses is that an "enemy government" could insert a modified version of
software into government systems... and this is possible because they have
the source code.

I am amazed at the underlying assumption in this - namely that this is an
OpenSource-specific problem...

Is Microsoft now SO powerful that it can protect against enemy government
infiltration more effectively than the US Government can? Surely, it would
NEVER occur to an enemy government to infiltrate a commercial software
developer writing government software - goodness no - they would never try
that!

M.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Teale" <gteale at cmedltd.com>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Open Source Is Fertile Ground for Foul Play


> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:34, Paul Turner wrote:
> > This article might provoke a few thoughts:
> >
> > http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/20111