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Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government"
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CmdrTaco
on Mon Jun 02, 2008 03:35 PM
from the targeting-interface-for-the-man dept.
from the targeting-interface-for-the-man dept.
The corporate overlords at SourceForge asked me to name a Slashdot category for their upcoming
Community Choice Awards and to let you guys select the winner. I have named my category "Most Likely to be Shut Down by a Government Agency." We're going to run this like we do an Ask Slashdot call for questions — post your nominations into the comments here. Use moderation to send up good ideas. In the upcoming days we'll post another story where you can vote on the actual winner. Nominations need to include the project name, a link to some sort of official website, and a paragraph of why you think they deserve to win. The project that wins will gain fame, notoriety, and maybe a cease and desist order that they could print out and frame if they had that kind of time.
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Last week we took nominations for a Slashdot category at the SourceForge Community Choice awards. Our category was 'Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government Agency'. Your nominations were tallied, and we arbitrarily selected a few that we think are the best. Today is the day where you can at long last determine the winner, using the incredibly scientifically accurate Slashdot Poll. Our nominees are
Truecrypt,
EFF Patent Busting,
GNU Software Radio,
WikiLeaks,
Cryptome.org,
Tor,
Freenet,
and CowboyNeal.
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Truecrypt (Score:5, Insightful)
It's basically only a matter of time before the fear-mongers and political demagogues in the U.S. and elsewhere outlaw any form of encryption that doesn't include a backdoor for the NSA and other "trusted" government agencies. There has already been evidence of commercial encrytption (such as Windows encryption [slashdot.org]) including such backdoors. And when the commercial companies all cave, how long do you think it will be before the government comes after the open source projects too?
Re:Truecrypt (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course, I suppose the argument could be used for pretty much every project that is likely to be mentioned.
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Re:Truecrypt (Score:5, Informative)
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Patent Busting (Score:5, Interesting)
Or has it been shut down already?
Re:Patent Busting (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Patent Busting (Score:5, Insightful)
I think this site should win because it's very likely to actually shut down if Patent Reform comes through. However, even if patent reform fails, I think it would be interesting to see what the lobbyists and congressional members do to come up with to try and take them down, because this site is one of the few out there that do a damn good job of calling out the patent trolls. In addition, it's one of the few that make the public aware of what all of us on Slashdot have known all along: that the patent system sucks, and these are the people that take advantage of it.
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Software radio... (Score:5, Interesting)
The GNU software radio project
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/
is a good candidate. It proposes to let you make electromagnetic waves in a manner not subject to prior restraint by the FCC, and without the back-doors intelligence agencies have on many current means of communications.
This is naughty.
ThePirateBay (Score:5, Insightful)
wikileaks, followed by cryptome.org (Score:5, Interesting)
Matt
Re:wikileaks, followed by cryptome.org (Score:5, Interesting)
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Slashdot (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, I just mean that there is no free thinking here, just stupid cliched memes.
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Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
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wikileaks (Score:5, Insightful)
MediaDefender (Score:5, Interesting)
Tor, Freenet, and I2P (Score:5, Insightful)
FreeNet (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone notice the diamond sponsor? (Score:5, Funny)
Freenet (Score:5, Interesting)
I Save RX (Score:5, Insightful)
GOA (Score:5, Insightful)
Trapster (Score:5, Interesting)
www.trapster.com [trapster.com]
It's an interactive thingy where you post where cops are hiding in speed traps.
I'm surprised it's still up, honestly.
Our right to know. (Score:5, Interesting)
In terms of software, PirateBay/Cryptome/GnuRadio. Anything dealing with encryption will NOT be shutdown, unless it involves a brand new and interesting algo.
Obama (Score:5, Insightful)
What an extremely useful little competition ... (Score:5, Insightful)