A whole load of cryptic stuff…
“Windows 7 has malicious features just like Windows Vista. These include features to restrict users (Digital Restrictions Management), a back door for imposing software changes, and perhaps also the spyware features discovered in previous versions. If you don’t want to be abused, defenestrate your computer.”
Richard Stallman (RMS), President of the Free Software Foundation (Join) in an Interview with Neowin.net.
“It would be better that the government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism – that we live in fear and under a police state[...]“
Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5
Found in a BBC News report Ministers ‘using fear of terror’
“We have not made any final decisions on how communications data will be collected and no decision will be made until after the consultation process.
“We do not recognise the term “Black Boxes”. It has not been used in any of our briefings or presentations”.
A UK Home Office spokesman talking about reports that the Government is to collect and store all internet traffic.
“Noodle lumps of the present invention, because of their quick restoration properties when subjected to boiling water, can conveniently be served to the general public as a very convenient ration-type lunch, holiday snack for outings and/or emergency food, thereby contributing greatly to an improvement in dietary life of the general public.”
Momofuku Ando (?? ??). Inventor of Cup Noodles, 1976.
“One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control,” he said. “It’s just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else’s web server, you’re defenseless. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.”
Richard Stallman, Founder of the Free Software Foundation.
From a Guardian article about Cloud Computing.