Hi Bob.

04-May-04 19:41:03, Bob Lawrence wrote to David Drummond

 DD>> How would you "activate" this cookie if I'm not using
your vesion
 DD>> of a browser?

 BL> I couldn't... unless I knew there was a fatal flaw (or a backdoor)
 BL> in the browser. The problem is that when we say "browser" we
 BL> actually mean IE. It's the universal browser, and a backdoor gives
 BL> access to 95% of all computers including commercial installations.

if there's a backdoor in the browser chances are it's not going to need a
cookie to open it.

 BL> I talk to yanks, and I'm amazed by their paranoia. They *actually*
 BL> feel personally threatened. They believe there are powerful forces
 BL> out there, actively working to destroy their delightful way of
 BL> life, to destroy democracy, christianity, and Aryan culture

There are forces out there, and I feel that the american way as seen by
troop deployment the last 25 years is not something superman would want
to continue defending. (given that he's sworn to defend peace and justice
first)

 BL> (there's a joke... what culture?).

applie pie apparently, and a new way to spell "Mum"

 BL> Myself, I see terrorists as poor pathetic little losers like
 BL> Amrosi who blew up innocents in Bali, a second-rate car mechanic
 BL> who still thinks he'll share paradise with Allah and 47 virgins -
 BL> haters who can't succeed in this world so they aim for the next.
 BL> So they kill a very few of us - who cares? It's the cost of doing
 BL> business in a free society. You are always going to get a few
 BL> haters (like the five Muslim-Paki brothers who rape our women),
 BL> but you also get a lot of nice people - you don't shape your life
 BL> and your society around a minority of mandmen.

yeah.

 BL> I have come to believe that America (and "patriotic" American
 BL> companies) will do *anything* to impose their safety on the rest
 BL> of us. The "land of the free" grabs Australians and holds them
 BL> without charge for two years when they have obviously not broken
 BL> any laws either in Afghanistan, the USA or here. A threat to
 BL> *Israel* caused the Iraqi catastrophe which continues more and
 BL> more to look like Vietnam (they're even using "hearts and minds"
 BL> now, complete with American men behaving badly), so why wouldn't
 BL> Microsoft be part of a conspiracy to "protect" the Land of the
 BL> Brave and the Free against computer crime and organise a nice
 BL> little backdoor in IE?

yeah, but why would they hinge the whole thing off a cookie, you can turn
cookies off.

 BL> Myself, I'd be amazed if M$ had not built a backdoor into their
 BL> products.

There was found a label called "NSAKEY" in one of their product's symbol
tables (which hadn't beens stripped like they normally are for release)
this word probably referst to a constant or a function which is of
interest to the NSA...  (IOW it looks like a backdoor)

 -=> Bye <=-

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