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to: Mike `/m`
from: Geo.
date: 2003-04-24 07:45:44
subject: Re: US Gov sez: Open Source enables terrorists

From: "Geo." 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> A most interesting development.  I guess this means that
> security-challenged Microsoft software does not enable terrorist states?
> Or maybe there really *are* NSA keys in Microsoft security software, and
> that is why the US government is not concerned about the encryption
> capabilities contained in Microsoft software.

Get real. The mil types are good enough they don't even need a coded
backdoor, they take hack better than eeye. If you want to keep them out of
a computer that's on the net 24x7 then you write your own firewall and
don't distribute it or you unplug.

Geo.

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