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[privacy] NSA may be Reading Windows Software in your Computer?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:56:53 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Scoop.co.nz (props, Pogo Was Right). [snip] Sooner or later, a country that spies on its neighbors will turn on its own people, violating their privacy, stealing their liberties. President Bush's grab for unchecked eavesdropping powers is the culmination of what the National Security Agency(NSA) has spent forty years doing unto others. And if you're upset by the idea of NSA tapping your phone, be advised NSA likely can also read your Windows software to access your computer. European investigative reporter Duncan Campbell claimed NSA had arranged with Microsoft to insert special "keys" in Windows software starting with versions from 95-OSR2 onwards. [snip] More: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00260.htm - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHFlrxq1pz9mNUZTMRAo6zAKDGq5FmarrZxHFNtVwlDEw8T2X9MwCg3IOC xHQcoJKkssmfD1/NeEuDnYI= =gJZn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] NSA may be Reading Windows Software in your Computer? Paul Ferguson (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] NSA may be Reading Windows Software in your Computer? rms (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] NSA may be Reading Windows Software in your Computer? Gadi Evron (Oct 17)
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