4 Dec
2000
4 Dec
'00
21:36
Message-ID: <3A2C0E6D.127F97A9@gypsyfarm.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:36:45 -0500
From: zentara
Yes, the NSA is a possibility, but I'd be more concerned about the ill effects on society that could be brought about via a widely distributed, closed, proprietary system such as Windows. It's another reason for using Linux.
I'm an old windows basher, but as the article stated, no OS is immune to the microcode attack. I was discussing a while back whether pgp and other encryption programs had "backdoors" in them, the answer was "if it exists, it's in our c compilers", controlled by very high level people. I have a paranoid streak. :-)