[CS-FSLUG] Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Hacking Story?

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

The old (but true) saw that "when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will
have guns" comes to mind. One would think that people who stand to loose
by being "hacked" would be hiring hackers to explore, find and eliminate
vulnerabilities instead of trying to eliminate those very abilities among
the general public.

> Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Hacking Story?
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It's been a cheerily good spring for FOSS fans here in the Linux
> blogosphere, so we may perhaps be forgiven for our utter shock and
> disbelief at the affront recently committed against us by a certain
> brick-and-mortar purveyor of books and magazines. Barnes&  Noble yanked
> the very excellent Linux Format magazine from its U.S. shelves --
> apparently because of a cover story on the topic of "hacking."
>
> See the Full Story:
> http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75037.html
>
> --
> Apparently, we are supposed to be more angry about what
> Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama
> does with ours.
>
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