Comment Screen filter (Score 1) 574
Someone needs to invest in one of those screen filters. They can just say it's for State secrets and pass it as a business expense.
Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source"
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figleaf writes "Three years ago, with much fanfare, Microsoft announced it would make some of the .Net libraries open source using the Microsoft Reference License. Since then Microsoft has reneged on its promise. The reference code site is dead, the blog hasn't been updated in a year and a half, and no one from Microsoft responds to questions on the forum."
Submission + - Australia cracked US combat aircraft codes (news.com.au)
SpamSlapper writes: FORMER defence minister Kim Beazley has told how Australia cracked top-secret American combat aircraft codes to enable the shooting down of enemy aircraft in the 1980s. The radar on Australia's Hornets could not identify most potentially hostile aircraft in the region, but dispite many requests, the codes were not provided, so "In the end we spied on them and we extracted the codes ourselves".
The Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made.
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