RMS warned of this a bit over 20 years ago. This is why you should get Free and Open source software and not Open Source Software. Preferably with a GPL licence which allows you to download, run, read the code, modify it and share it. Open source can mean you only have the right to read the code and signal to the dev code you’ve saw that could have been better or errors you saw.
He’s got a great GI tract! The best ever!
In the meantime, Russians and Chinese are building bases all over the area, once French and US bases close down and evacuate. So the “live freely and peacefully” is wishful thinking at best. They close down their bases because those are at risk.
“Hey, now we do E2E! No need to worry about where it is, it’s totally opaque except to you! What? You want to review the code? No! Ours is not one of those dangerous FOSS softwares, ours is closed for your security, but you got our word!”
I work for a french public owned company in transport. The whole company uses Microsoft 365, “sysadmin is an idiot and I don’t trust his password system” [ editing done] etc… Oh yeah, no one thought about cleaning up the system so copilot’s here all right, just sipping in the corner.
We are truly f***d .Doesn’t matter whom attacks, the US, China, Russia, indépendants. They can paralyse this transportation network in a snap. And I know it’s far from a lone example.
The french public services are hopeless as far as computing and basic security is concerned. There are a few times when they struck genius and got productive, secure services out, but day to day companies that are the infrastructure of the country itself are hopeless.
It’s a bit less than 1% erosion per year but yeah… They got bakmut two years ago and now they are at chassiv yar, 4 miles further according to Google maps.
That’s good, have it, not using it yet, never had the opportunity to. Brick and mortar will probably be the first time I’ll use it (unless online shows up first, but I usually buy stuff from small online retailers, seldom the big ones that will embrace it first.)