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Submission + - Codeweavers' Lame Duck Challenge Met

Submitted by ah42
ah42 writes: Several sites are reporting that Codeweavers' Lame Duck Challenge has met one of its goals, by gas prices dropping below $2.79 a gallon. "Tomorrow, Tuesday 10/28, all CodeWeavers products will be freely downloadable. One license per customer, and [...] word from CodeWeavers execs is that the free license will be for a download-only flavor of the Pro version, including the Games optimized build and the option to share a Windows 'bottle' among multiple users on the same machine"
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Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid? 236

Posted by kdawson from the tinfoil-laptop-carrying-case dept.
ruphus13 writes "There are still places on the world where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death. Covering one's tracks is considered to be of such paramount importance that we are now witnessing the rise of a Linux distro catering to the most paranoid. The 'alpha-alpha' version of ParanoidLinux is now out. But is this the best way to protect oneself? Couldn't it be easily circumvented? The article asks, 'Why is it necessary to put the applications and services designed to protect anonymity, to encrypt files, to make the user nameless and faceless, all together, in one distribution? Let's think in a truly paranoid manner. Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open?' What should truly paranoid user do?"

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