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Brazil migrates voting machines to GNU/Linux - The INQUIRER

Connaissiez-vous les open sauce softwares ? Dans la première phrase j'ai pensé à une erreur de "The INQUIRER" mais quand j'ai lu ça dans la deuxième, je me suis demandé si j'avais raté quelque chose... On retrouve cette expression à plusieurs endroits dans ce journal sur d'autres sites... Peut etre une bonne âme pour nous expliquer ça :P

Ceci dit, interressant pour le Brésil. À suivre de près.

THE BRAZILIAN Electoral Supreme Court announced last Friday that Brazil's 2008 elections will use 430,000 electronic voting machines running GNU/Linux and open sauce voting applications.

The voting machines will be migrated from VirtuOS and Microsoft Windows CE to GNU/Linux and open sauce software in order to meet legal requirements for security and auditability.

PeoplePC - News

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are fostering terrorism.

Terror groups are taking their cues from organized crime and funding their operations with money they make committing intellectual property crimes, he told a gathering of Silicon Valley executives.

"Criminal syndicates, and in some cases even terrorist groups, view IP crime as a lucrative business and see it as a low-risk way to fund other activities," Mukasey said. "A primary goal of our IP enforcement mission is to show these criminals that they're wrong."

Mukasey, who did not elaborate and did not take questions, said his department is devoting increasing resources to prosecuting such crimes and filed 7 percent more IP cases in 2007 than in 2006 and 33 percent more than in 2005.

Before Friday's speech, Mukasey met privately with representatives from companies including Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc.

A day earlier, the attorney general also met with entertainment industry executives in Los Angeles during his three-day California trip.

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Enfin ce lien que je souhaite tant depuis très longtemps entre agriculture et technos libres ?

Des biolinuxes contre la biopiraterie - Uni-e-s pour un autre monde

A l’image d’une communauté de logiciels libres où chacun peut modifier les codes sources en vue de les adapter à ses besoins propres ou de les améliorer pour le bénéfice de tous.

hackademix.net » Pure Java™, Pure Evil™ Popups

Pour tester, à vos risques cliquez ici

iPhone a Trojan Horse For Government Surveillance?

En fait, comme google et autre gros yahoo, apple et AT&T, collectent vos données personelles... Qui en profitera ? Pas vous.

Earlier this week, a technology group in Russia released the results of their attempts to reverse engineer the iPhone, concluding that the product has "A built-in function which sends all data from an iPhone to a specified web-server. Contacts from a phonebook, SMS, recent calls, history of Safari browser - all your personal information can be stolen."

DLFP: La communauté du Libre au Québec

Valerie c'est une bonne copine qui a habité à Montréal pendant un bout. Elle a laissé son empreinte, et maintenant elle va raconter ce qu'on fait chez les gaulois. Sympa. Merci Valerie :)

J'aimerais bien savoir ce que mes amis développeur de logiciels pensent de ça.

An Auction Site for Vulnerabilities

Discover a security flaw in a major application or system? You can't sell it on eBay. But starting this week, you can sell it on a new auction site that's not too much different.

WabiSabiLabi, whose marketplace opened for trading on Tuesday, is aiming to change the back-room market for security vulnerabilities and move it into the mainstream. Any researcher who finds a flaw can register to sell it on WSLabi's marketplace. WSLabi, a "neutral, vendor-independent Swiss laboratory," checks out the vulnerabilities and verifies their validity in its own labs before allowing them to be auctioned.

C'est quoi le libre, c'est quoi une license, le copyleft, comment, pourquoi où etc... tout est là ou presque, en français.

Artlibre.org: FAQ

Apple iPhone and DRM | DefectiveByDesign.org

The iPhone hype hides a basic problem with the product – Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) inside the iPhone means that it wont be under your control. Apple has built this “smart” phone to dumb you down. They also want you to switch your cell phone service to AT&T – who collaborated with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive, illegal program to wiretap and data­ mine Americans' communications.

SunHerald.com : Electronic voting machines dumped

Une petite bonne nouvelle