No need for AV tools on Linux, eh?

[JB]

les <hlhowell <at> pacbell.net> writes:

> ... 
> It doesn't help that the governments of the world and the business
> admins want back door access to the users systems.  The legality of that
> access is for another thread, but one of the side effects is that really
> effective security would make that access nearly impossible.  Remember
> the hassels over PGP when it came available?  And now China has copies
> of the Microsoft core software source code, so that they can have better
> access to the control of the internet within their own country.
> ...

China (and Russia, btw) do it in their own interest. So does everybody else.

Software (closed-source, even open-source) is a potent weapon in the age of
computerization, automation, and militarization of cyber space.
No international treaties will prevent that.

What do you think is inside all that complicated network gear (routers, etc) ?
Even things like Internet protocol specs (an open protocol by itself) can be
a matter of advantage/disadvantage to many interests/competing technologies.

JB