Re: [Fsfe-uk] ITSafe: IT Security Awareness For Everyone

[Graham Seaman]

MJ Ray wrote:

> Stuart wrote:
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> > http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/
> > Despite the motto "IT Security Awareness For Everyone" at the moment
> > only Windows is supported and UNIX/Linux are only referred to in the
> > past tense.
> >    
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Even if they are only supporting windows, it seems crazy for them not to 
mention firefox, thunderbird, or open office as more secure alternatives 
to MS software. Their 'howtos' are basically 'howto use microsoft tools' 
only. Still, at least they have a handy feedback form...

Graham

> This is in depressing agreement with the theory of "new
> enclosures" that I heard at the European Social Forum. When
> a government endorses a monopoly, it will often get involved
> in doing that monopoly's work for it. I'm told this has been
> seen in tax-based licensing of biotech in South America. Here,
> we're seeing the UK government distributing only security
> information for Microsoft systems and defaming Unix and
> Linux. Doing Microsoft's work for them.
>
> Feeding the site to tidy or validator.w3.org is also depressing,
> which is how I first heard of it, but didn't really pick up this
> aspect. I assumed that they hadn't linked in all services yet,
> not that it was launching supporting only Microsoft Windows!
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