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The UK has decided that don’t want to buy US fighter jets unless the US is willing to provide the source code for the firmware that controls them. Britain is worried that the jets could contain back doors that allow the US remotely disable them. Apparently Australia has made similar demands. Open-source fighter jets… who would have thought?
Link: Vnunet.com article (via Boing Boing)
Posted on 19 March '06 by Amit Gupta, under Asides, Technology.
#1 Posted by Nick Gray (20.03.06 at 20:55 )
While they’re at it…. Here’s the Football, guys. Take it all.
Amit's an entrepreneur.
His latest project is Photojojo. If you like photography, you will like Photojojo.
Before Photojojo, he was a founder of The Daily Jolt, an online community on 100 college campuses, helped create a non-profit called ChangeThis with Seth Godin, and brought the technology un-conference BarCamp to NYC. He also started a weekly casual coworking session called Jelly.
And he's consulted for companies such as Pearson, Apple, and Creative Good and co-authored The Big Moo, a WSJ best-seller, with Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Peters, and others.
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