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["Beth Ellison" <leonardbernst55 AT hotmail.com>]

> > "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.
>
> I've heard this one floating around since the NT 4.0 days. There was some
> incident, that I don't remember well at all now, about a year before W2K 
> hit
> the streets that started this off. A good deal of speculation mixed with
> just enough fact to get everyone excited.
>
> Of course, the real interesting part is that anyone who hears this actually
> *thinks* that it's possibly true. That speaks volumes about how much the
> general technical community trusts MS.

Ah. It's not new, just new to me. Got it. And your last sentence sums things 
up beautifully.


Beth



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