The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by jawns on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:05PM (#18294281)

I don't see why it's any different than a photo-editing app that applies a watermark to the free version. It's intended to let people give the software a try, and if it seems to meet their needs, they buy the actual product.

As for sharing the source code with the NSA, I think you have a better argument there. That said, it's kind of like helping someone install a secure lock on their door to keep out criminals, yet being willing to share a master key with police if it's a matter of life and death.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by Mithorium on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:26PM (#18294472)

not the master key, the schematics to the lock maybe. Assuming no bugs, I don't see how the source code could help in any way, they may as well have downloaded the source code for openssl.

He also didn't bother to verify whether it was a matter of life or death, he just immediately assumed he was helping break into a file containing the deactivation code for a bomb or something, who knows what the NSA was actually doing.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by web007 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:23PM (#18294455)

It's not a master key, it's a blueprint of the lock with no combination or exact pin layout.

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