Assange and NSA

[David Guntner]

Ralf, please take this to OFF TOPIC.  Thanks.

Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:02 +0200, Slavko wrote:
>> Ahoj,
>>
>> Dňa Tue, 27 May 2014 16:21:50 +0200 Diogene Laerce
>> <me_buss777 at yahoo.fr> napísal:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Maybe I missed the thread : I wasn't there for a while but I would
>>> like to have your advice on that article :
>>>
>>> http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/julian-assange-debian-is-owned-by-the-nsa/
>>
>> From end of the article:
>>
>> "UPDATE: Wikileaks is officially denying that Julian Assange literally
>> said “Debian Is Owned By The NSA”."
>>
>> All other thing was discussed more times there and they are widely
>> known.
>>
>> Some from us want to believe, that these errors was simple mistakes
>> only and some don't want to believe this. And beside these here exists a
>> big group of users, which don't believe to anything, to anyone when the
>> security and privacy goes to play.
>>
>> Only very simple people will hope, that the NSA (the USA government)
>> will not try to get access into free/open software, because this is a
>> big source of information. And only very simple people (again) will
>> believe, that they will not abuse it.
>>
>> regards
> 
> Hahaha, I assent to the view of Tamer Higazi, join a conspiracy forum
> and start hunting bigfoot and shapeshifters. Sure, the NSA likely hacked
> some FLOSS code we are using, but the NSA unlikely has taken over
> absolute control. They likely have got absolute control over American
> computer companies like Apple and Microsoft, but they never ever have
> the same power for open source.
> 
> 


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