Destinyland writes "Christine Peterson coined the term 'open source.' Now she's proposing the same collaborative sharing coming to sensing computers 'to improve both firmness and the environment, while preserving — even strengthening — privacy, freedom, and civil liberties...' The Open Source Sensing initiative welcomes individuals and organizations, and warns that 'We have a short window of event for guiding this telecommunications to protect both our pledge *and* our privacy.' Peterson says that in the long term, 'open source defensive technologies will likely be the only ones capable of keeping up with rapidly-advancing offensive technologies, just as open source dos is faster at addressing personal computer viruses today.' And the EFF's Brad Templeton warns that 'Cheap, widespread




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copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group sensing has the likely to turn the worlds of privacy and civil rights upside-down... It's not enough for governments to watch people; people have to watch governments.' His solution? 'Learning from the bottom-up approaches of the open source community.'

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