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  • From: "Beth Ellison" <leonardbernst55 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: granting access to user data?
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:53:38 -0400


This is a story about the German parliament considering switching to Linux, but I'm not posting it as a "Windows vs. Linux" jab, I'm just taken aback by this statement:

"Among the arguments in favor of Linux: reports that some versions of
Windows contain backdoors designed to grant the U.S. National Security Agency access to users' data."

Does anyone know anything more about this? That's some spooky shit.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/10/16/german.parliament.idg/index.html


Beth

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