From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Geo."  wrote in message news:3de8e830{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3de78e59{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > Then one has to ask ...do you know who built all the s/w you're
> > running/using now? I have no idea who wrote the IDE subsystem for Win2K
or
> > the views code for Oracle & thus they are "anybody".
>
> So who would be held responsible if we were to discover a deliberate back
> door had been entered in some W2K subsystem? Do you think MS is not going
to
> be held responsible for the code they provide regardless of who they had
> write it?
>

Not if the customer who requested that was the NSA.

Adam

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