linux-kernel - Pieces placed in juxtaposition.

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Date:	Sat, 4 Oct 2014 12:57:57 +0200
From:	"Tom Collins" <tomcollins224@...l.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Pieces placed in juxtaposition.

"Opensource is going mainstream in 2014" -RedHat CEO

Systemd presents a large attack surface (where as there are few ways
to communicate with init etc), needlessly manages disc cryptography (amongst everything else,
normal inits never cared one way or the other),

"Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics" http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/10/01/186228/obama-administration-argues-for-backdoors-in-personal-electronics

(Think of the children, ignore privacy, and religious freedom (that ship set sail in Delaware 1870))
Attorney General Eric Holder called it is "worrisome" that tech companies are providing default encryption on consumer electronics, adding that locking authorities out of being able to access the contents of devices puts children at risk. \u201cIt is fully possible to permit law enforcement to do its job while still adequately protecting personal privacy,\u201d Holder said at a conference on child sexual abuse, according to a text of his prepared remarks. \u201cWhen a child is in danger, law enforcement needs to be able to take every legally available step to quickly find and protect the child and to stop those that abuse children. It is worrisome to see companies thwarting our ability to do so.\u201d

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