[conspire] Open Source blamed for power grid insecurity

[Ross Bernheim]

Michael,

Everyone in Florida knows that sinkholes and hurricanes are a liberal socialist plot. Aligators
are caused by rampant free range tree huggers.



> On Oct 17, 2023, at 14:37, Michael Paoli <michael.paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
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