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[Rowland Smith <rowland AT webperformanceinc.com>]

Beth Ellison wrote:

> > > "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.


It's funny how someone always wants to make the old "new" again. 
Remember the good ol' Clipper chip and Key Escrow?  That's just 
Clinton/Gore era terminology for "backdoor", which is just a shorter way 
of saying "please lower your trowsers, thank you very much".

Some of our members of congress are already trying to figure out how to 
repackage the backdoor/key-escrow clusterf*&k and get it passed as law:

Excerpt from Cryptogram from Bruce Schnier re Sept 11th:

"In the wake of the devastating attacks on New York's World Trade Center 
and the Pentagon, Senator Judd Gregg and other high-ranking government 
officials quickly seized on the opportunity to resurrect limits on 
strong encryption and key escrow systems that ensure government access 
to encrypted messages."

Here's a link to the Cryptogram that's quoted above.

   http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0109a.html




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