Stallman: Free software is the basis for IT security – Heise News Ticker

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The father of the free software community, Richard Stallman, has been on the 31C3 free software to “necessary foundation of Cyber ​​Security” explained. Proprietary programs developed more and more malware.
 

Without free software IT devices and online services can not be sure. This equation set the valiant founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, on Monday at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg. “You can not fix and not otherwise find out if rear doors are installed error,” said Stallman. Users might find yourself without insight into the source code also does not feel secure against the developer.

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Free software is not a panacea for the massive network surveillance by intelligence agencies like the NSA or Internet groups, Stallman conceded. But you can prevent a user being spied on by your local system. In general, would have systems are designed so that they collected as little data about their users.

Proprietary software imputed founder of the GNU Project a penchant for malware that wants to spy on the user. You put it ultimately important to harm the user. Apple devices like the iPhone are prisons from which one must break out my jailbreak only. Amazon has built into its Kindle reader, the designated Stallman as “Swindle” a universal back door – just like Microsoft Windows. The Redmond company also initially cleared the NSA vulnerabilities on before abdichteten this

DRM systems to digital rights management -. For Stallman means DRM “digital restriction management” – would be abused for content monitoring, Stallman continued to seek from. Cloud services in the form of “Software as a Service” (SaaS) transmitted all the essential data to an external server and acted on behalf of the user. They are synonymous with spyware. Legal action against the “abuse” of users hardly exist, since they would have to give their OK to opaque Gängel business conditions with one click.

The assembled hacking community called the FSF founder to become “the freedom of the code to actively defend “. This I use it to call free software by name and can not be described as arbitrary, therefore coming without ethical foundation Open.Source software. Education should begin in schools: who bring with software dorthiun, this must share with others may

In order to promote and free hardware, reverse engineering should be taught in response to an undisclosed specifications at each university.. The protection of whistleblowers should be expanded, “otherwise we have no democracy.” A certificate signed by him GNU mascot auctioned Stallman at the end of his talk spontaneously for 300 Euros. ( Stefan Krempl ) / (odi)
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