Why Proprietary Code is Bad for Security

Jabari Zakiya wrote an article headlined “Beware of Skype” in the Free Software Magazine. He suspects that the recent outage of the Skype network had to do with the US of A’s revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), something which is planned (and soon done) here in Germany as well: the spying of the state onto its local citizens. See the German Wikipedia article about the topic “Online-Durchsuchung“, which is also known as the “Bundestrojaner” (a trojan installed by the government).

Interesting for us all is what conclusion Jabari comes to in his article:

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