On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:31:30AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:19 AM, patrick keshishian <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Felipe Alfaro Solana
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Obiozor Okeke
> >> <[email protected]>wrote:
> >>
> >>> From Network World:
> >>>
> >>> NSA helped with Windows 7 development
> >>> Privacy expert voices 'backdoor' concerns, security researchers dismiss
> >>> idea
> >>> By Gregg Keizer , Computerworld , 11/18/2009
> >>>
> >>
> >> Why would NSA need backdoors when they have a front-door via DHS, national
> >> security and things like that?
> >
> > Same reason there exist unconstitutional congressional acts/bills that
> > allow for secret torture prisons, detention of persons without due
> > process, complete bypassing of fouth and sixth amendments, voiding of
> > the Posse Comitatus Act, etc. etc. ... naive voters like you are the
> > reason we are in this shithole right now.
> >
> > --patrick
> >
> >
>
> The NSA's mandate is to protect American computer systems from attack.
> It's perfectly reasonable to believe their contributions are honest
> and legitimate.
>
> Note that the NSA's work on DES, which was rumored to have been
> backdoored by them, actually proved to strengthen it against
> differential cryptanalysis.
It has indeed. But it remains unknown if it facilitated another
attack. Anyway, could you you all take your affairs to another forum?
They are her pretty off-topic.
-Otto
