"Security by obscurity does not work, and the more people who know about means of attack/vulnerability, the more secure our IT will be," opined blogger Robert Pogson. "Most people are good and decent and should be empowered to defend their computers and networks. Knowledge is the key."

It's been a cheerily good spring for FOSS fans here in the Linux blogosphere, so we may perhaps be forgiven for our utter shock and disbelief at the affront recently committed against us by a certain brick-and-mortar purveyor of books and magazines.

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