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No XP for the Army, I Can See You Too.
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:46:24 -0600 (CST)
Forwarded from: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson () treachery net> Courtesy of Cryptography List. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:29:33 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah () shipwright com> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs () philodox com>, dcsb () ai mit edu, cryptography () wasabisystems com, farber () cis upenn edu, Phil Agre <pagre () alpha oac ucla edu> Subject: No XP for the Army, I Can See You Too (was Re: IP: Softwar Enews) At 10:11 PM -0700 on 10/25/01, softwarsup () ctsi net wrote:
NO XP FOR THE ARMY Dept. of Defense officials have nixed a large buy of the Microsoft XP operating system and any PCs that have XP installed. The U.S. military has determined that the online registration of the Microsoft operating system simply gives up too much information about the Defense Dept. computers and software. I CAN SEE YOU TOO The move by U.S. law enforcement to ban anonymous Internet Web browsing has had unintended consequences. Anonymous web browsing was very popular with U.S. intelligence agencies and government military users who did not want others to know exactly what information was being accessed. Although the government may now be able to more easily track U.S. citizens on the Internet - the same is true in reverse. For example, on Oct. 24 at 5:30 pm the Bush White House visited the www.softwar.net website and downloaded information on the China-Gate scandal.
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