Boeing Preparing an Ultra-Secure Smartphone 101
bobwrit writes in with a story about Boeing's new secure government phones project. "Earlier this week, it was revealed that aerospace firm Boeing was working on a high security mobile device for the various intelligence departments. This device will most likely be released later this year, and at a lower price point than other mobile phones targeted at the same communities. Typically, phones in this range cost about 15,000-20,000 per phone, and use custom hardware and software to get the job done. This phone will most likely use Android as it's main operating system of choice, which lowers the cost per phone, since Boeing's developers don't have to write their own operating system from scratch."
Re:GPL Apply here? (Score:5, Informative)
GPL has NEVER required release of source to anyone other than those to whom you release executable. GPL has NEVER restricted internal forks/releases.
Re:GPL Apply here? (Score:5, Informative)
The GPL only requires that you distribute the source code to the same people you distribute the binary to. (And requires that you give them the same ability in turn.) Presumably, this means that Boeing has to give the government the source code, but that's it. The government could choose to release it, but I doubt they would.
Re:What about the network side of things? (Score:5, Informative)
Unless the engineers at Boeing working on this are total idiots (which is highly unlikely) all that a cell tower would see (fake or otherwise) is an encrypted stream (probably a VPN) heading between the handset and some locked down secure server out there.
Units, you fuckers (Score:4, Informative)
Is that in Turkish Lira? Bargain!