[conspire] Open Source blamed for power grid insecurity

[Michael Paoli]

Makes about as much sense to blame sinkholes, hurricanes, alligators,
or ... Florida.  I mean we are talkin' Florida after all.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:55 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> So the past few nights on the 11PM TV news in Orlando Florida, they've
> blamed Open Source for insecurity of power grid software, claiming that
> individuals create components used in that software, and a lot of the
> individuals are from Russia and China.
>
> Then they brought in some "professional security expert" talking head
> to reiterate what they had just said.
>
> This really frosts my petunias.
>
> Nowhere did they mention that proprietary software is a security
> nightmare. Nowhere did they mention that anybody and everybody can look
> at Open Source code, and *real* security experts regularly do bang on
> Open Source software to find potential security problems. Nowhere did
> they mention that commercial software employs developers from various
> nations including Russia and China.
>
> This reminds me of the 00's all over again, when Microsoft used every
> possible trope to sway the public against Free Software.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
>
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