Jeroen Massar wrote:
Peter Keel wrote:
- on the Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:02:18AM -0700, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
why doesn't someone create a public Skype chat for SwiNOG? I think more people on this list have skype than IRC client software (me, for example :-)
I don't. And I WON'T.
I've done too much cmputer security, and now I've got a déformation professionelle. I won't use closed software for anything crucial like "communication";
You don't use Cisco's or Junipers? How do you use the Internet actually? Or for that matter, did you actually really get that BIOS source of your computer and that of the video card etc etc?
And of course, with Open Source: did you check every single line of the source, and that of the compiler, and all the tools that that was made with etc etc etc? Ah, indeed you didn't, thus please don't claim that "Open Source" is "more secure" because you have the source, because it is impossible to check.
That's not the point. Of course we don't check the whole source code. I usually don't have a look at the code at all. But point is, it's code, tested and build by a community not a closed company with their own, secret business goals...! I don't want be a victim of global marketing data collection and stuff like that...
and programms like skype for chatting are just unnecessary overhead! of course point is not that i want to use it over a satellite link :P
something where I can't even run the server myself (or decide whose server I want to use).
Some people like A, some people like B.
Some people like irc.swinog.ch, some people like Undernet/IRCnet/EFnet/.... whatever floats your boat.
Greets, Jeroen
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