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Surely "overstatement" not "pure PR"? On 07/12/2013, Martijn Grooten <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Philip Hudson wrote: >> I'm sure nobody on this list was fooled for a second by EvilCorp's >> recent security whitewash "announcement", but in case you need to give a >> detailed rebuttal to anybody, here's the good old FSF: >> >> https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-responds-to-microsofts-privacy-and-encryption-announcement > > Calling free software a "solution" against NSA backdoors, as the FSF does, > suggests that they have no idea about the kind of backdoors that the > agency uses. > > There are very strong arguments to be made in favour of open source > software following the Snowden leaks, and I wish more people would make > them, but calling it a solution agains the backdoors is pure PR - and > pretty bad PR too. > > (Whether the software is "free" is mostly irrelevant in this discussion.) > > Martijn. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq