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Question for HN: How could this possibly work with software developed for the military?

• krisoft 4y ago
  Freedom of information laws frequently have national security interest exceptions. A similar carve out can be made from the requirement of open sourcing public funded software.
• nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Kerckhoff-Shannon principle. Unless I can assume that my enemy has total access to knowledge of my mechanisms, but is in no way advantaged with respect to my operations, it is not an effective weapon.
• pessimizer 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure the military both uses and contributes to FOSS. Tor was a US Navy project.
• deleted 4y ago
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• Moiman 4y ago
  Military gets open source code. Military doesn't have to publish it for everybody.