German electronic health card test fails due to over-paranoid root CA hardware : ‘Matthias Merx, the firm’s managing director, told heise online that following a voltage drop, something happened in D-Trust’s “Trustcenter” that does occasionally occur. “The [hardware security module] independently deleted the data [including the root CA private key] because it suspected an attack.”‘
(tags: security oops health smartcards pki certificates ca heise germany tests d-trust gematik coprocessors)Why I (A/L)GPL : Zed Shaw on OSS licensing and today’s software industry: ‘I use the GPL to keep you honest. You now have to tell your bosses you’re using my gear. And it will scare the piss out of them. Good. Because I have a solution to that too.’
(tags: software copyright licensing opensource bsd gpl gnu zed-shaw)