Who was that guy with that bigass beard was? You know, the one everyone in tech takes lightly and treats as the butt of the joke? He keeps owning your asses as you keep ignoring him.
Another part of the problem is the assumption that using free software necessarily protects you from government intrusion. I think at this point you pretty much have to live out in the woods with nothing more complicated than a gun in your possession to avoid that.
It's all a matter of trust in the end. Even with Open Hardware, the production line, or the transport of the hardware to your doorstep could be compromised. The same way that even Open Source software can be compromised if no one is paying attention or you are being specifically targeted.
That's all true. But if intelligence agencies are constrained to physically breaking in to your premises to bug you, that gets hard to scale up to pervasive mass surveillance.
chroem|11 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
He's about free software as well. People that haven't started subscribing to his ideas post-leaks are part of the problem.
krapp|11 years ago
pyre|11 years ago
femto|11 years ago
https://code.google.com/p/homecmos/
Zigurd|11 years ago