[trustable-software] Software that is not trustable

[trustable at panic.fluff.org]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Dan Shearer wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 09:39, <trustable at panic.fluff.org> wrote:
>>         so, if I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that for
>> software to be worthy of trust it should not break laws ?
>
> I am definitely not suggesting this. Various governments use laws to
> ban cryptography, enforce court judgements relating to software
> patents, ban media codecs and do all sorts of other things that are
> not only impossible but enthusiastically flouted by software used at
> scale. There are many laws worldwide that make ignorant and impossible
> statements about mathematics, the internet and software.
>
> What I propose, and am personally pursuing, is using the happy
> coincidence that six recent pieces of EU legislation make good
> statements about what software should *not* be used. This legislation
> has big fines and (more to the point) a network of newly funded
> institutions for improved software.

Dan,
     can you point me at that legislation your discussing here as I'm not 
aware of it or how they intend to implement such complaince.




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