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RE: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding
From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:55:26 -0500
The difference is quite clear, Theo is an individual and entitled to his own policitical views whether the President of the United States agrees with them or not. DARPA is a government agency and has no right to any political view. By definition an agency is created to fullfill its charter, in DARPA's case to promote advanced research in the US government's best interests, which a secure network OS clearly is. The charter mentions nothing about Democratic, Replubican, Anarchist, war, or peace political views. Curt -----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com]On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 11:22 AM To: Curt Purdy; jasonc () science org; 'InfoSec News'; isn () attrition org Cc: wk () c4i org; full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Somehow I think Theo will find some way to get the project done. He was doing fine before the DARPA project. I do find it interesting that you characterize Theo as "expressing his views" yet you characterize DARPA as "politicizing a technical project". Weren't they both doing the same thing? Why the difference in the characterization? --On Saturday, April 19, 2003 09:10:53 AM -0500 Curt Purdy <purdy () tecman com> wrote:
Unfortunately, one of the things that seems to have been overlooked in this political discussion, which I believe does not have a place in this technical forum, is that a great and sorely needed project is in jeopardy. OpenBSD is generally considered one of the most secure network operating systems available today, and that is even before the recent announcement of the new resistance, if not vulnerability to buffer overflows which can be considered the holy grail of programming. Whether you feel da Raadt was wrong for expressing his views on peace, or that DARPA was wrong for politicizing a technical project, the point here should be that the entire technical world is the loser...
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- Re: RE: Rijndael Ben Laurie (Apr 20)
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- RE: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Mads Tansø (Apr 20)
- Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Shawn McMahon (Apr 20)
- Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding yossarian (Apr 20)
- Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Codex (Apr 20)
- RE: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Paul Schmehl (Apr 19)
- RE: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Denis Dimick (Apr 19)
- RE: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Curt Purdy (Apr 19)
- Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Shawn McMahon (Apr 20)
- RE: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Curt Purdy (Apr 20)
- Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Matthew Murphy (Apr 19)
- Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Timmah (Apr 19)
- Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding Paul Schmehl (Apr 19)
- RE: requires full discussion of political and legal aspects of security Jason Coombs (Apr 19)