{"id":3429,"date":"2010-12-16T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T10:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2010-12-16T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T10:22:14","slug":"thursday-miscellany-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/thursday-miscellany-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This hasn&#8217;t been verified. Could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/213751\/former_contractor_says_fbi_put_back_door_in_openbsd.html\" target=\"_blank\">the FBI really put a backdoor into an open-source operating system<\/a> &#8212; and have it go unnoticed for 10 years? Seems dubious. Isn&#8217;t a major point of open-source that thousands of geeks can freely examine the code to find and correct bugs, bad coding &#8212; and backdoors? In any case, hats off to Theo de Raadt for immediately taking the accusation public. As the creator of OpenBSD, he has as much to lose as anybody. But he&#8217;s obviously got a boatload of integrity, too.\n<li> &#8220;A fresh Gallup Poll released this morning reveals that <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2010\/12\/gallup-poll-congress-approval-record-low.html\" target=\"_blank\">somehow 13% of Americans still approve of the job being done by Congress<\/a>. The new Gallup survey did not identify those people, understandably.&#8221; Heh. Couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kniferights.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KnifeRights.org.<\/a> I&#8217;ll be doing a future <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swatmag.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>S.W.A.T. magazine<\/i><\/a> article about the political perils around edged weapons. Thought this might be a good time to link to one of the fighting organizations.\n<li>Why did she go after a gunman with only a purse for a weapon? <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/MindMoodNews\/school-board-shooting-ginger-littleton-risked-attack-gunman\/story?id=12403574\" target=\"_blank\">Because her purse was the only weapon<\/a> you allowed her, morons. Gutsy woman, though.\n<li><i>Time<\/i> demonstrates its growing irrelevance by naming Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year. I try not to care what <i>Time<\/i> does. But the idea behind its Man\/Person of the Year choices has always been to point to the most influential people in the world. Not the most popular. Not the biggest newsmakers of the moment. The most influential. That&#8217;s why its notorious old choices of Hitler and Stalin made sense &#8212; even as they turned stomachs. But <i>Mark Zuckerberg<\/i>? A man who&#8217;s done nothing but create a new forum for billions of people to blurt the drivel  they were already sharing with each other? A man who&#8217;s done nothing but cannily advance a trend that began forming back in the ice age when the first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FidoNet\" target=\"_blank\">FidoNet<\/a> node went online? And to choose Zuckerberg when their readers intelligently told them that Julian Assange was the man most likely to make a <i>serious<\/i> difference on the world scene? Yikes! I don&#8217;t watch TV, so I&#8217;ve never seen &#8220;The View&#8221; and wouldn&#8217;t know Elizabeth Hasselbeck if I tripped over her. But gotta admit, her observation is right on. Zuckerberg is more important than Assange only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elizabeth-hasselbeck-argues-that-assange-is-more-important-than-zuckerberg-2010-12\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;on a gnat-moving scale.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Oh, but enough ranting about TPTB and their media Wormtongues. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/weird\/\" target=\"_blank\">On a lighter note &#8230;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hasn&#8217;t been verified. Could the FBI really put a backdoor into an open-source operating system &#8212; and have it go unnoticed for 10 years? Seems dubious. Isn&#8217;t a major point of open-source that thousands of geeks can freely examine the code to find and correct bugs, bad coding &#8212; and backdoors? In any case, hats off to Theo de Raadt for immediately taking the accusation public. As the creator of OpenBSD, he has as much to lose as anybody. But he&#8217;s obviously got a boatload of integrity, too. &#8220;A fresh Gallup Poll released this morning reveals that somehow 13%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/thursday-miscellany-11\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}