From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:49:23 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>news:3de920e2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> > 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.
>
>You're kidding right? Everyone exposed by the backdoor would be holding MS
>responsible and there would most likely be a huge boycott of all their
>products.


Could this be one of the reasons why so many non-US governments are looking
at alternatives to MS windows?

Could this be the reason why Ashcroft suddenly went soft on Microsoft?

 /m

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