[Humour] Whose Security is Microsoft Defending? (So-called 'National Security')
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-06-25 02:59:30 UTC
- Modified: 2020-06-25 02:59:30 UTC
National Security Agency or GNU/Linux and Android? Your call.
Summary: The NSA's top partner Microsoft has leveraged the corporate media and gullible bloggers, getting them to promote proprietary software that is mislabelled 'security' and actually helps spy on machines (whose underlying base is free/libre)
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