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Good intentions are most important
Quoting:

"In its filing this week, the SDR Forum asked the FCC to allow radio makers to discuss their code in public, as long as they weren't intending to encourage rule-breaking. The group also urged a neutral stance on the security of open-source software, arguing that 'academic inquiry and industry discussion coupled with a market test,' not regulators, should decide."

If prefaced by the statement. "We don't want to encourage rule-breaking", then anything said in puublic is immune from criticism. True, the Supreme Court in Grokster said that any software provider which announces that it has no intent to facilitate copyright violation is immune from preosecution, but that's the only other situation I can think of now in which the stated intent determines whether a wrong action has occurred.

And the other part of that statement observes that regulators should have no interest in security, but only sit by and watch industry discussions and academic papers to see how the efforts to protect the public airwaves are progressing.


This post is not about whether open source is actually more/less/as secure as closed source. It's about a comment from the SDR Forum so naive that it's foolish.
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 07/06/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Good intentions are most important  Anton Philidor | 07/06/07
except that...  John Le'Brecage | 07/06/07
Security by obscurity is bull milarky  Been_Done_Before | 07/06/07
Actually...  BFD | 07/06/07
Saying it doesn't make it so.  apotheon | 07/06/07
Look mama, he's trying to assert himself  zkiwi | 07/07/07
Yep, you can guarantee that the binary image from these things would be  DonnieBoy | 07/07/07
Cisco / Open Source  calsoft | 07/06/07
Depends on who rigiously they police the code  Boot_Agnostic | 07/07/07
Last time I checked, free software and the competition that it brought,  DonnieBoy | 07/07/07
Another point, the closed source model ONLY helps if you assume that  DonnieBoy | 07/07/07
It ain't all software  A.Sinic | 07/09/07
For any of you that have delusions that proprietary code would HELP  DonnieBoy | 07/07/07
For any of you that have delusions that open source code would HELP  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/08/07
For any of you that have delusions  nighthawk808 | 07/08/07
It comes down to it's the fed's call  Boot_Agnostic | 07/10/07
"It comes down to it's the fed's call"  Ole Man | 07/10/07

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