peter hollings wrote:
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. :-)
It's not paranoia if it true, and with regards to pgp it is true. The NSA backdoor to version 6.x of pgp (I don't remember if 5.x has the backdoor) is verified. That is why there was a recent mass movement from pgp to gpg
-- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or
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From: "peter hollings"
Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.
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