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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
sorry, i don't. but here is one with french subtitles, which i've translated below :
this is not the time when she was interviewed and asked point blank "what firewall do you use" (that probably happened after this). in this particular video, Albanel (again, then Minister of Culture, pushing the Hadopi "3 strikes" law...) is explaining oh so eloquently that :
"on this question of software, of free software, of course, when you purchase software for example the Microsote (sic) Pack (that i know is not free software) with word, excel, powerpoint, there are of course firewalls, as i just said, there is security software, but on free software you can also have firewalls which, of course... for example, we, at the Ministry, have a free software which is called "Open Office" and there is effectively a security program in there which prevents the Ministry of Culture to have access of course, and the suppliers of free software supply firewalls, they even supply free firewalls. so this argument is without foundation, that is what i wanted to say."
leaving aside the fact that most of that is utter gibberish and makes little to no sense (is there even one complete sentence in there ?) she clearly states that MS Office is an example of a firewall / security software you have to pay for, and that the Ministry of Culture uses a free firewall, called "Open Office", which "prevents the Ministry from having access" (to what, we don't know). personally, i think if Open Office is preventing anyone from having access to something there's likely a problem.
it still seems like a travesty to me.  |
That's hilarious!
The translation makes it all the more clear that these idiots have no idea what they're doing. Still a travesty of course, but I'm no longer worried. The only people who will get stung by these new laws are the ill-informed and, if the hackers have anything to say, the people who instituted these laws to begin with.