Re: [Rival]NSA Had Access Built into Microsoft Windows

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:17:56 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> ____/ Robin T Cox on Wednesday 02 April 2008 18:25 : \____
>
>> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:15:50 -0700, Darth Chaos wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquir...09/government-
>> spooks-helped-microsoft-build-vista
>>>
>>> Excerpt:
>>>
>>> Microsoft is not the only one to tap the spooks. Apple, with its Mac OSX
>>> operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what
>>> it thought of their products. The NSA is quite good at finding weapons
>>> of mass destruction that are not there.
>>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...le/2007/01/08/
>> AR2007010801352.html
>>>
>>> Excerpt:
>>>
>>> For the first time, the giant software maker is acknowledging the help
>>> of the secretive agency, better known for eavesdropping on foreign
>>> officials and, more recently, U.S. citizens as part of the Bush
>>> administration's effort to combat terrorism. The agency said it has
>>> helped in the development of the security of Microsoft's new operating
>>> system -- the brains of a computer -- to protect it from worms, Trojan
>>> horses and other insidious computer attackers.
>>
>> LOL that's brilliant! With friends like the NSA who needs enemies?
>> Obviously the NSA are as incompetent as the rest of the Bush
>> administration.
>>
>> However, it's nice to know that MS are so closely tied into them.
>
> I think that for this reason the Chinese government wanted to build its own
> Linux. It goes back to something I read about two years ago, so I can't find
> the source or recall it precisely. In years to come, it will be natural for
> governments to require full control of the source code they compile, not just
> what they are allowed to view (they viewed Windows source code).

Let me get this straight.
We are talking about China, the country that censors everything, including
Google (I think?) that they don't want their people to see.

And you think it is *good* for them to be using Linux, which they most
certainly are working very hard at compiling a "custom" state sponsored
version of for the *benefit* of their people?

You have got to be kidding.....

At least with Windows, even if they can see the source code, technically
they are prohibited from modifying and recompiling it to create their own
version.
It's of course possible to do, but highly unlikely.

And if you believe China is sincere in releasing "Redflag Linux" or whatver
they call it, and expect it to be clean and free from govt inserted
*nasties* you probably believe in the tooth fairy.

Roy Schestowitz in action.
It's not a pretty site..........

>Ignorance is bliss.

You should know Roy Schestowitz.
You wrote the book.

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Moshe Goldfarb
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Moshe Goldfarb wrote:


> And you think it is *good* for them to be using Linux, which they most
> certainly are working very hard at compiling a "custom" state sponsored
> version of for the *benefit* of their people?
>
> You have got to be kidding.....
>
> At least with Windows, even if they can see the source code, technically
> they are prohibited from modifying and recompiling it to create their own
> version.

And with the GPL they have to distribute the source code with the OS, so
those lovely little dog eaters can change whatever the hell they likes.

Don't you read the book of stereotypes?

They leave women to die
Eat dogs
And can all code from birth.