In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .gov>, Jay D. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > >Hi folks, > > You may find this of interest. It is chilling, to say the least. >(Of course, this is something I always suspected, but had yet to confirm.) > > http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html There's an attempt to deny the thing today, as one would expect: <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/04soft.html> free registration required. How reliable is Andrew Fernandes the guy who discovered this backdoor? How likely is the thing to be real, or as M$ explains it, "a Microsoft programmer's remarkably bad choice of language in a software system designed to protect electronic communications and commerce? Microsoft executives insisted that there was no Big Brother feature in the software. "The big answer is that these charges are completely false," said Scott Culp, a security product manager at Microsoft." tbt | Anne Wiggworthy-Smythe is back this weekend with new Society Notes and | | New competition, commentary and fiction online now at *.* Magazine, | | New shorter address <http://www.star-dot-star.co.uk>. Competition prize | | is Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 Enterprise Edition compliments of Corel. |
