Foreign Software a Spy Risk, Deputies Say

[CHIMO]

Foreign computer software should be banned from sensitive government offices because it makes Russia vulnerable to spying and sabotage, two influential State Duma deputies said Thursday.

Deputies Gennady Gudkov and Alexander Khinshtein, both members of the United Russia party, told reporters they had proposed the ban as part of amendments to a bill on information security, which is currently awaiting a second Duma reading.

The proposal comes three months after a spy scandal in which the Federal Security Service, or FSB, accused British diplomats of passing secret messages via a specially equipped rock.

"It is silly to hope that foreign security agencies, under whose wing large foreign companies operate," would not take the chance to use IT products to spy on Russia, Khinshtein said.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/05/12/003.html

So Diebold guess you are out of luck in Russia. That is unless...

[longship]

1. Gees, what about Free software (as in Libra)?

(AKA Open Source)

Software which is developed by peer review and has source code available to everybody and anybody. Developers are typically from all over the planet with no allegiance to anything other than writing good software and making it the best and as stable as it can be.