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Open Source Victories of 2008

KDE4's fine... once you're talking 4.1 and later. The 4.0 stuff was very alpha quality, though a necessary step to get developers to actively start supporting it. Full Article at Slashdot

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  3. The public will want this to be controlled by new legislation and judicial authorisation. Without those safeguards it’s a devastating blow to any notion of personal privacy.
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  4. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someones UK computer and pass over any material gleaned.
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  5. To be a valid authorisation, the officer giving it must believe that when it is given it is necessary to prevent or detect serious crime and [the] action is proportionate to what it seeks to achieve
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  6. why would I want to do that?
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  7. It’s just like putting a secret camera in someone’s living room
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  8. The exercise of such intrusive powers raises serious privacy issues. The government must explain how they would work in practice and what safeguards will be in place to prevent abuse.
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  9. Compiz is a research project.
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  10. These are very intrusive powers – as intrusive as someone busting down your door and coming into your home
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