From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Dec 4 23:54:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC2637B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [209.145.65.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93FB43EC2 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:54:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adrian+freebsd-advocacy@ubergeeks.com) Received: from mail.ubergeeks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ubergeeks.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB57skIP095882; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 02:54:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrian+freebsd-advocacy@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by mail.ubergeeks.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id gB57skF7095879; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 02:54:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrian+freebsd-advocacy@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lorax.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 02:54:46 -0500 (EST) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Ceri Davies Cc: Walter , FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: How NSA access was built into Windows In-Reply-To: <20021201191010.GB4334@submonkey.net> Message-ID: <20021205025252.P95818-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:13:49PM -0500, Walter wrote: > > Mario Goebbels wrote: > > > Walter wrote: > > > > > >>Though a fairly old story, I just received this in an e-mail > > >>and I thought it appropriate for Advocacy. > > >> > > >> > > > >You're kidding, right? > > > No - should I be? :-} > > Yes, this has nothing to do with FreeBSD. > > Ceri Not specifically, but FreeBSD is an Open Source OS, and avoiding "bundled spyware" is one of the valid reasons for choosing Open Source options. i.e. It's a valid reason for choosing FreeBSD. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message