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Grakrim

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« Reply #30 on: October 28, 2003, 03:21:40 am »
Yes, I\'ve known about the CBDPTA for some time, and it infuriates me.  EVERYONE should read the Philosphy section on http://www.gnu.org, you\'ll understand the logic of copylefting, the GPL, privacy, \"security\", everything about Free Software.

Lawmakers truly don\'t understand computing, laws they consider just are infact unjust.  I hope that very soon people that truly understand are elected where they need to be, to protect our freedoms and privacy.  The CBDPTA restricts the right to make and use Free Software, one of the least understood concepts, and possibly most frightening to large computer companies.  Free Software has no analogue in our physical world.

Did you hear that Microsoft has coded a backdoor that allows the NSA to insall spyware on your computer, and has been there since Windows 95? Did you hear that another NSA backdoor was added in Windows 2000, one not know to even the top crypto programmers at Microsoft? Did you know that as a means to allow Lotus Notes\' 128-bit encryption to be exported, Lotus implemented a means for the NSA to quickly decrupt Lotus Notes\' messages?

Fear the government that doesn\'t understand the world it exists in.
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« Reply #31 on: October 28, 2003, 04:17:15 am »
Bow before the great Linux Penguin God. Shun the Microsoft corruption that has spread to you and embrace the open-source light!
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« Reply #32 on: October 28, 2003, 07:34:13 pm »
i would question the backdoors in windows.  No, i\'m not questioning that they are there, chances are there are dozens, but that the NSA could use them, c\'mon now?  I write backdoors into almost everything i code, a  lot of programmers do, but they RARELY tell anyone about them(specifics, i mean)  anyway...

I look forward to the day when microsoft pushes too far, and discovers just how hard the world can push back.

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« Reply #33 on: October 28, 2003, 10:53:32 pm »
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I write backdoors into almost everything i code, a  lot of programmers do, but they RARELY tell anyone about them(specifics, i mean)  anyway...

According to the article I read, they never told anyone.  Someone disassembled a particular DLL (Something to do with Security Certificates, I believe), and found a key.  In a Service Pack, Microsoft failed to strip the debugging symbols and the unidentified key was labeled as \"NSAKEY\".  Here\'s the article: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5263/1.html
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