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 |  It looks as if Red Hat has some work cut out for them if they care what impression folks in the FOSS community have about them. If the results of our Red Hat &the NSA poll are any indication, some people aren’t convinced that the most commercially successful Linux distro on the planet has clean hands when it comes to the whole NSA mess. A few weeks back, in response to what I thought (and [...] Continue reading Results for Our ‘Red Hat & the NSA’ Poll On Friday, Roy Schestowitz posted an article on Techrights which seems to accuse Red Hat of being in cahoots with the NSA. According to the article, the company has been building back doors into RHEL for the spy agency. However, the article appears to be long on accusations and short on proof. I like both Techrights and Schestowitz. Both are controversial and that’s part of what I like about them. However, before making accusations it’s [...] Continue reading Is Red Hat Working for the NSA?  FOSS Week in Review Credit card breach at Target affects over 40 million Merry Christmas. Your bank account has been drained. This week’s holiday cheer was marred for millions as they learned that their banking information might be in the hands of hackers. Target has announced that over 40 million customer credit card transactions have been hijacked since Black Friday. The data was stolen from transactions at the retailer’s brick and mortar stores. Online transactions [...] Continue reading New Temp Patent Head, Amnesty for Snowden & More…  FOSS Week in Review FreeBSD rethinks encryption after Snowden leaks Only three months after the Snowden leaks on NSA snooping began, we learn from Ars Technica that the developers at FreeBSD have decided to rethink the way they access random numbers to generate cryptographic keys. Starting with version 10.0, users of the operating system will no longer be relying solely on random numbers generated by Intel and Via Technologies processors. This comes as a response [...] Continue reading Android On Nokia, SCOTUS On Patents & More… The story behind All Things Open (ATO) is IT-oLogy, the nonprofit behind the conference coming to Raleigh later this month. This occurred to me last week as I was preparing for the event, on a night when I’d decided I knew as much as I wanted to know for the moment about the speakers and their workshops and started to look into IT-oLogy.  Continue reading IT-oLogy: Opening Doors in Raleigh With ‘All Things Open’ | ||
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