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Re: Massive cyber "attack" on China; millions of computers affected
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:53:50 -0400
On Thu, 24 May 2007 12:21:28 EDT, rms () computerbytesman com said:
How is this an "attack" as opposed to "a CLM-sized whoops"?There should have quotes on attack in the original subject line. I fixed the problem. I wonder if the Chinese government will now be looking into the security risks of U.S. software companies having backdoors into their country's PCs.
They're already aware of the issue - it's one of the reasons that the Red Flag Linux distro was started. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redflag
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