Public Money, Public Code

Re:Public Money, Public Code by _trackno5 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:35PM (#31184722)

Question for HN: How could this possibly work with software developed for the military?

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Re:Public Money, Public Code by nonrandomstring on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @04:10PM (#31185105)

Kerckhoff-Shannon principle. Unless I can assume that my enemy has total access to knowledge of my mechanisms, but is in no way advantaged with respect to my operations, it is not an effective weapon.

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Re:Public Money, Public Code by Moiman on Thursday April 28, 2022 @06:24AM (#31190823)

Military gets open source code. Military doesn't have to publish it for everybody.

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Re:Public Money, Public Code by krisoft on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:47PM (#31184863)

Freedom of information laws frequently have national security interest exceptions. A similar carve out can be made from the requirement of open sourcing public funded software.

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Re:Public Money, Public Code by pessimizer on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @09:56PM (#31187985)

I'm pretty sure the military both uses and contributes to FOSS. Tor was a US Navy project.

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