Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:19:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Cc: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>, cjc26@cornell.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (fwd) CNN - Crypto expert: Microsoft products leave door opento NSA - September 3, 1999 (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909061712570.96788-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <37D25F8A.8C9B303E@nisser.com>
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > The thing with Mirosoft's NT and other proprietory OS's is that the > source is not available for inspection. Who knows what, uhm, demons <g> > lurk in their shadier corners? And to whose benefit or what purpose? > > Roelof > While Microsoft is denying a "back door" to NSA, that NSA would have approached them (and Intel, on different matters of course) is well within NSA's own view of their responsibilities or even obligations. What's interesting about this is whether major organizations will decide that it is too risky to run operating systems for which one doesn't have sources. That offers great opportunity for Linux and FreeBSD. X on these systems can be standardized and made almost as easy to run for the user as 95/98/NT; Linux/FreeBSD on an AMD K-7 is probably a reasonable option for which to consider. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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