Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 17:35 +0400 schrieb Dmitry Butskoy: > Vladimir Makarov wrote: > > Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > > > >> Simo, Vladimir, folks, > >> > >> please stop distributing this crap. It is unfortunate drop of black PR > >> from our enemies during current discussions on improving legality of > >> software in schools at Russian government. But it is far from reality. > >> > >> > > Alexander, I am really sorry about this. My appologies. I did not > > know that it was April 1st joke. I read this just recently and took > > it seriously. Probably my knowledege about modern Russia is not > > adequate anymore. I left it ten years ago. > > > >> The case described below is April, 1st joke which was created by > >> www.securitylab.ru portal (a good one!) but went largely unnoticed until > >> someone showed it to general IT media without linking to the original. > >> > >> http://www.securitylab.ru/news/293577.php > >> > > What do you speak about now? > > To be clearly understood: > The Russian case described is not "a joke", unfortunately. > > Certainly, it is (still) not wide-spread, but I hear about such a threat > at each RHEL-related seminar now. A user ask "what about if I just > download from Internet", the "official" answer is "it is dangerous, > because your computers can be confiscated etc...", and "if you don't > want such troubles, buy (our) box with some license paper..." > Did you experience this yourself first hand, or hear it off someone at a conference? Did they experience it first hand? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
