Tracy R Reed wrote:
Everyone knows I don't like Microsoft and wouldn't trust them for a
second but I also don't like making such claims based on such flimsy
information. I would say you are probably right but for supposedly
scientific-minded people we can't just take it on our lack of faith in
MS and the NSA.
I stand corrected; you are right. When I went back through things
looking for hard evidence, it's pretty flimsy.
It's also *old*. We're talking 1999. The fact that it's getting
recycled suddenly makes the whole thing pretty suspicious.
And only the NSA has that key, right? None of the bad guys know how
to use it, right?
If this were real I would be surprised that more foreign countries have
not moved off of Windows.
It still amazes that our *own* government uses Windows given the myriad
security flaws.
I agree. We shouldn't be worried about the Chinese hacking our systems
via the Internet. We should be worried about them taking advantage of
something like this and conducting industrial espionage on a grand
scale. Why don't Qualcomm or any of the local companies who supposedly
strongly protect their "IP" worry about this?
Because they have the money to enforce their position through lawyers,
bribes, etc.. The dangerous position is to be the upstart attempting to
dethrone a Qualcomm. That's when the corporate espionage is going to
kick in and you will need security.
But then, everybody outsources their cleaning staff for crap wages, so
you have no security anyway.
-a
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