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granting access to user data?

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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granting access to user data?, Beth Ellison, 10/17/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: granting access to user data?, Scott Russell, 10/17/2001
- Re: granting access to user data?, Beth Ellison, 10/17/2001
- Re: granting access to user data?, Rowland Smith, 10/17/2001
- Re: granting access to user data?, Michael S Czeiszperger, 10/17/2001
- Re: granting access to user data?, B, 10/17/2001
- Re: granting access to user data?, Thomas Beckett, 10/17/2001