[Wylug-discuss] Linux gets everywhere...

[D.Bolton U0970268]

Thanks - interesting presentation.

Yes - Linux is very much a "given" nowadays (and Snowden's slides are really quite old now)

Ironically, though, knowing how to use *nix now seems to be used as evidence against people. See:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/manning-verdict-and-hacker-madness-prosecution-strategy

Dave
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From: John R. Hudson [j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com]
Sent: 31 July 2013 22:41
To: D.Bolton  U0970268
Cc: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Linux gets everywhere...

On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 19:39 +0000, D.Bolton U0970268 wrote:
> How about this for an endorsement of Linux?
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa-xkeyscore-program-full-presentation
>
> Dave

Interesting but the recent Top500 report says that 2003/2004 was the
year of the switch to Linux - so by 2008 I would have expected them to
be using Linux.

The most recent presentation doesn't mention Linux - just everything
that it has been possible to build on top of it:

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2013/slides/big_graph_nsa_rd_2013_56002v1.pdf

BTW this was published just before Edward Snowden's revelations.

John
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