> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 05:12, civileme wrote:
> 
> > Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a 
> > Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly 
> > forgotten to strip the data tags.
> > 
> > Microsoft has (or had) in Win9x and WinNT cruyptographic keys for 
> > cryptographic services and no services would work without passing the 
> > appropriate key.  This was to comply with export restrictions at the 
> > time (128 bit encryption was considered a weapon).

This is when I took serious interest in Linux. I was just plain tired
of having to update and then still not know if there was a backdoor
for the NSA or MS or whoever.
I realize computer security is an ongoing practice regardless of OS,
but I sure feel safer with Linux than I did with Windows.

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