Oh that wonderful little drama again.

Had you followed that event a bit more closely, you would have known that little snippet of code had zero (yes, none, zilch) possibility of getting into Linus' branch, where all the public releases are made. In fact judging from your post I'd say you have no idea of what really happened at all.

No. I think it's one less than that. It might surprise you, but unlike some proprietary software, the big oss projects aren't big piles of mysterious crap, the developers really do understand their code.

With countless diligent people like you keeping a watchful eye, I'm sure any news of successful incursions into free/open source software will be promptly released when it happens. Or perhaps even earlier than that!

No. The main difference, IMHO, is that when George Carlin makes a joke, he is in no danger of losing his career, his reputation, or his personal freedom, while the inventors of Caoni horse do face such danger. Admittedly the risks for such consequences are rather low in this case, but it is still very real in our backward society. The possibility of such a danger is what makes the pun funnier than otherwise.

It's not about being a pervert. It's about mocking our fucking idiotic pig-headed government.

You have either been misinformed or are deliberately making stuff up for some reason. I have ran sshd and apached (with encryption) on my own computer for years. I use GnuPG to communicate with my friends. But I have NEVER been required to acquire permission from the "Party", nor have I given my decryption keys to anybody.

As much as I despise my communist government, spreading blatant lies like this is not going to help bring about its demise. If anything it only makes more of your "mindless hordes of ultra-nationalists", because your so-obviously-made-up description of china can be translated and circulated on the chinese bulletin boards as "proof" that westerners want nothing but the "down-fall of China", and how "ignorant" they are of "the great achievements made by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist party". Yes I know this is very laughable, but that's the sad truth, and it has happened very often in the past few years. Things like this can easily be used to provoke nationalist and anti-western sentiment in China, which will make the work of those brave individuals who tirelessly try to promot the values of human right, freedom, democracy, etc. (the "symbolic" values of the western world) in China more difficult than it already is.