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Would be nice if bigger nations like USA, UK/GB, Germany would adopt this policy and have to open source the exploits and root kits that where develop with tax
by chme 10y ago
Would be nice if bigger nations like USA, UK/GB, Germany would adopt this policy and have to open source the exploits and root kits that where develop with tax payers money.
Open source XKeyscore, yay!
- mlnox 10y agoThe UK government's digital services implement Open Standards for most of the code they develop. While this isn't something that third party vendors have to do, GDS/PDS/MOJDS/HMRCDigital are all rapidly reducing the amount of work external vendors do for government anyway. https://github.com/alphagov https://github.com/alphagov
- bozho 10y agoYes, in the linked presentation I mention GDS as a good example. The US also has a lot of opensource projects.
- Sylos 10y agoI think, the USA even already has a law like that, except that projects that were started prior to that law don't have to be open-sourced, so that's how XKeyscore is protected...