How lame is this?
by Colin Dodd
CNET Via Slashdot:
“A new federal rule set to take effect Friday could mean that software radios built on ‘open-source elements’ may have trouble getting to market. Some US regulators have apparently come to the conclusion that, by nature, open source software is less secure than closed source.
‘By effectively siding with what is known in cryptography circles as “security through obscurity,” the controversial idea that keeping security methods secret makes them more impenetrable, the FCC has drawn an outcry from the software radio set and raised eyebrows among some security experts.
“There is no reason why regulators should discourage open-source approaches that may in the end be more secure, cheaper, more interoperable, easier to standardize, and easier to certify,” Bernard Eydt, chairman of the security committee for a global industry association called the SDR (software-defined radio) Forum, said in an e-mail interview this week.’”
July 8th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Oh, and you really want US govt not to be lame?
These weren’t even properly raised and educated, I’m afraid.
July 9th, 2007 at 9:37 am
People say that US is the most technological advanced country.
Well it has the most number of Technologically backward people sitting at wrong posts.