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  • From: "Beth Ellison" <leonardbernst55 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: granting access to user data?
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:09:26 -0400


> "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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