Penguin: Microsoft Dying – But Linux Not Ready

We are long past due cutting the chains of predatory proprietary expensive, non-scalable, non-interopperable software. Open Source Everything (OSE) is a very ugly baby, but it is the only baby that has a chance of affordable scaling to meet the needs of all humanity. Indifference of market leaders kills their own markets Internet transforming higher …

Rickard Falkvinge: Nokia (Microsoft) Wire Tapped All of Its Own Encrypted Cell Phones Including Bank Transfer Information

Death Twitches: Nokia Caught Wiretapping Encrypted Traffic from Its Handsets Nokia, the cellphone manufacturer, has been listening in to all encrypted communications from its handsets. Every connection advertised as secure – banking, social networks, dating, corporate secrets – has been covertly wiretapped by Nokia themselves and decrypted for analysis. Security researcher Gaurang posted an article …

Microsoft’s Skype Goes Open Source – Both Ways

SKYPE GOES OPEN SOURCE……FLAWLESS VICTORY: AFTER MICROSOFT ACQUIRING SKYPE FOR 8.5 BILLION DOLLARS AND PROCEEDING TO ADD BACK DOORS FOR GOVERNMENT TO THE PROGRAM, THE SOFTWARE HAS BEEN HACKED AND IT’S SOURCE CODE RELEASEDadditional details: skypeopensource@conference.jabber.ru http://skype-open-source.blogspot.ch/Skype1.4_binaries http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6442887 SkypeKit_sdk+runtimes_370_412.zip skypekit binaries for Windows and x86_Linux + SDK http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7190651/ skype55_59_deobfuscated_binaries (Windows) http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7238404/ #Skype #Microsoft #OpenSource #Anonymous …

ADMIN: Directories Hosed by Microsoft, Fixes Completed

Astute readers have reported that the various directories are hosed.  Upon investigation we have discovered that when sorted within a Microsoft Word document preparatory to insertion in the final posted directory, the surface titles were sorted, but the links were not. The interim fix is to use the surface title from the directory in the …

Robert Steele: Microsoft Operation Cloudburst

After some effort, the below memorandum on Operation Cloudburst was delivered to and read by Reed Hastings and Norm Judah (the latter Chief Technical Officer for Microsoft).  Microsoft as a culture evidently cannot make the intellectual leap from legacy kludge to Open Everything, monetizing the aggregate instead of the instance.  This memorandum is the intellectual …