well, only if every employee has to compile his own desktop, otherwise I don’t see how you could be sure the published code is the one you have on your desktop
Oh, mate, come on… If it’s for employees, privacy is irrelevant. If they do this in any semi-competent way, they will want proper management tools to come with the OS - a way to monitor and protect (from “both ends”) included.
By “both ends” I mean data extraction both by a malicious party outside and inside the government. It’s bog standard enterprise approach to have what’s called “DLP”, or “Data Loss Prevention”, policies (and software solutions) in place.
While that is true if it is for the masses in france who there would go out of their way to find the work around and implement it after switching from windows or Mac?
Well, it’s not “for the masses”, it’s “for the government”, right? My assumption is that if there are good solutions or upgrades implemented in the OS, the OSS community will be able to extract the good bits without also pulling the “bad” bits.
If it’s Linux, presumably, it will be open source. Meaning, presumably, any anti-privacy code will be easily identified.
well, only if every employee has to compile his own desktop, otherwise I don’t see how you could be sure the published code is the one you have on your desktop
Oh, mate, come on… If it’s for employees, privacy is irrelevant. If they do this in any semi-competent way, they will want proper management tools to come with the OS - a way to monitor and protect (from “both ends”) included.
By “both ends” I mean data extraction both by a malicious party outside and inside the government. It’s bog standard enterprise approach to have what’s called “DLP”, or “Data Loss Prevention”, policies (and software solutions) in place.
While that is true if it is for the masses in france who there would go out of their way to find the work around and implement it after switching from windows or Mac?
Well, it’s not “for the masses”, it’s “for the government”, right? My assumption is that if there are good solutions or upgrades implemented in the OS, the OSS community will be able to extract the good bits without also pulling the “bad” bits.