In China, eight of the top nine political posts are held by engineers. In the U.S., almost no engineers or scientists are engaged in high-level politics, and there is a virtual absence of engineers in our public policy debates. via Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation – CIO Central – CIO Network – [...]

How sad… how true…

I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack. Around 2000-2001. via Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC. resno me mika implementirat nek OTP [...]