At home about 95% of all software that I use are open source. At work this number drops down to ~80%. However, most of the open source software I use at work is compiled with proprietary and closed source compilers (IBM, Portland, Intel). Compiling is not something I often do, though.

Of course not. That's why I said that there is a very mixed racial makeup. Slavery was one factor, but not the only one. There are regions in Northeastern states, such as in Paraíba or Pernambuco, where there are a lot of whites with Dutch and Portuguese background. In North and Mid-West regions there was a greater mix with native populations. It is impossible to say that it is the same, and I never said that.

What I said is that Southern states, and São Paulo, have a different ethnic profile.The focus of white immigrants during the XIX and XX centuries were mostly São Paulo and Southern states, and to a lesser degree other Southeastern states. This changed the ethnic makeup of these regions quite drastically, e.g., http://jornaldebrasilia.com.br/site/imagens/blogs/mapa_racial.jpg. And this is a fact, whether you like it or not.

This is not really the case, at least in a large part of the country, specially in the Southern regions (São Paulo and below). I live in São Paulo right now (that's the state, not the city!), in a medium size town (pop. 250,000), have a regular job and my quality of life is not very much different than when I lived in Germany for some years, quite a while ago. The main problems are public services, specially health services (but I, like half of Brazilian population, have a private health insurance) and public transportation (we have pretty decent buses, but they can't be compared to Germany's rail system), even though we pay way too much taxes. Our GDP as of 2011 as US$ 2.48 trillion (6th in the world, higher than India, Russia and Mexico), and the tax revenue was 35% of that. So our government gets a metric fucktonne of money.

In some states, most of them in Northern and Northeastern regions, poverty is a whole different business. It looks like two countries, as a matter of fact. Even in terms of ethnicity, with Northern states having a very mixed racial makeup (due to slavery), and Southern states having a majority of whites of Italian, German, Spaniard and Portuguese origins (there was a large government program to make the population whiter in these regions, about 100-150 years ago).

Actually, it is much harder for a domestic company (specially if it is not very large) to get away with this kind of behavior.

Brazil has very strict work laws, up to the point that even nannies and house cleaners are jobs under strict regulation. This case with Samsung is indeed very worrying, however it is not as common in companies as most people would expect in Brazil. We have hundreds of unions who have very resonant voices in politics.

Work conditions abuses in Brazil come mostly in two flavors:

i) Rural work in farms, specially up North. It is not uncommon to have people working under slavery regime in some farms, and some of the scandals involve even politicians who are also big farmers. The workers are usually very poor people who are deluded into getting a job in a farm and getting rich. Their travel costs are covered by the farmer, and so is living cost and food, and they stay in an eternal debt without ever leaving. They end up working 18 hours shifts for food, with no sanitary conditions, etc. This is taken seriously in Brazil, but more often than not the responsible for this are rich people, so they get away with fines and never see the inside of a jail cell.

ii) Manual labor done by foreigners, in particular by South Americans. In Sao Paulo city there are 200,000 Bolivians, 80% of them are illegal, and most of them work with sewing. They work under very poor conditions and earn very little. Since most of them are illegal, and most of them are in debt with people who helped them to get here, they are afraid to seek the police.

But in companies this is not the case. Even to me this news about Samsung came as a shock.

The saddest thing is that probably each and every citizen -- be them old, young, children, ill, healthy -- will have (as in obliged) to pay his or her visit to the funeral in order to say a last good bye, in a country with a terrible winter and where artificial heating is a luxury only available to the great members of the party. Perhaps even a little sadder is knowing that absolutely nothing will change, for his son has been trained since his early years to take on daddy's position and keep up with the realm of terror, not to mention that the old military leaders who were by KJI's side the whole time still remain.

The positive thing about his death to the citizens of North Korea is to show them that despite of what their government have been saying, their leaders are not deities nor special in any way, and are prone to die just like any other human. I wonder how his death is being explained to citizens -- perhaps they are being taught that the dearest leader ascended to the skies after fulfilling his role as a guide to humanity.

Great news, almost three times the number of people they have in slave camps!

There isn't a single cane of sugar growing on soil where the Amazon rain forest is or was. Be less of an idiot, be more of an educated person, please.

BK also runs on Windows. My old man has been using it for 13 years for his genealogical records. I've tried to get him going with GRAMPS, but still no success.

Maybe it is worth a shot again.

You, sir, have hit the nail right on the head. It's only sad that even foreigners don't see Lula and his gang for what they really are.

IPSec, anlong with SSL/TLS, is one of the most common ways of securing a VPN today.

I'm sure they are not interested in "every computer". Heck, OpenBSD doesn't run in "every computer". They are probably interested in key machines used by companies, foreign governments and such. Devices which actually relay sensible information.

What really gets me worried is that even the audit freaks who develop OpenBSD weren't able to see this. If it turns out to be true then what about other projects which less savvy developers? What about Linux? Not long ago it was reported that the workhorse of Linux development are mostly paid developers, of which most are employed in private companies. What's the chance of FBI having some of them in their payroll?

Other than that, I imagine the "backdoor" is probably a very well hidden bug that allows key leaking of some sort and for which only the FBI has the exploit.

They don't need to dig up any dirt on the man. They could, but it would be a worthless effort. Unless he has raped children before eating their fleshes while they were still alive or has been the central figure of some major economical scandal, they know they can't make him look bad to his followers and to the whole lot of people supporting WikiLeaks. The kind of support and supporters he has attracted are quite hard to get, and once gathered they are quite hard to get rid of as well. Besides finding a way to put him behind bars (be it legal or not) and perhaps shutting down his whole operation in order to avoid the disclose of the rest of the cables, there isn't much they can do about what has happened already.