> 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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