HB1197 Status

[Seth Cohn]

Late breaking news...

Thanks to front page headlines on the computer hack...
http://unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=de7276ec-e725-42e4-aa26-123b8d304b36

Choice quote: The program may have lain hidden for as long as six
months — the last time computer experts ran a thorough check of the
state's network.

HB1197 is now up for a reconsideration vote, since the study committee
would seek to know how and why this sort of thing happened, and how/if
open source could have prevented it.  (Cain and Abel is a sniffer
program, plain and simple... it took _six_ months for them to look for
weird traffic???)

HB1197's not dead quite yet.

Seth

> This list is probably the right place for that.  We are, after all the
> folks in NH interested in working together on F/LOSS.  Bill, Chris and
> I attended the only hearing we know to have been open to the public on
> this,

You attended the subcommittee meeting (which I missed), I was the only
speaker (save for the sponsor) at the main public hearing.  Next year,
if not sooner, we can line up lots more people to speak...

Seth