IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text From: "Dan S" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "IP" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Allyson Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:46:57 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Dan S" [EMAIL

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2000-04-13 Thread Ed Gerck
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Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Rick Smith
Regarding the following article: From The Register, http://www.theregister.co.uk/000412-20.html - Posted 12/04/2000 5:56pm by Graham Lea ... . The Register has seen an unofficial transcript of a luncheon meeting on Capitol Hill of the Internet Caucus Panel Discussion about the new

Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Rick Smith
While writing about OS back-doors, I said: I'm incredibly skeptical that Microsoft, IBM, or any other vendor intentionally provides back-doors for the NSA or anyone else. This was too strong, because there is in fact a counterexample that I'd forgotten while composing that e-mail. Jim Gillogy

Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Matt Blaze
While writing about OS back-doors, I said: I'm incredibly skeptical that Microsoft, IBM, or any other vendor intentionally provides back-doors for the NSA or anyone else. This was too strong, because there is in fact a counterexample that I'd forgotten while composing that e-mail. Jim

Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt Blaze writes: But I still don't believe there are secret back-doors in commercial OSes because such things are too hard to keep secret. And I think the Lotus incident is more evidence that NSA isn't going to try to keep something like that secret since they