> > Conspiracy theory anyone? And was the NSA around at the time of
> Roswell,
> > or was that the CIA? But the 3 small countries has got me beat, I can't
> > think of that one.
>
> As for the 3 small countries, yeah got me beat too. Maybe he's just trying
> to illustrate the point.
>
> Moving that aside for a moment, there are the two points of view here.
>
> Do they want to help build a world full of Linuxes with built in back
> doors by making this stuff freely available??
>
> Do they seriously want to offer the community more secure computing and in
> the process make their own job a lot harder??
>
> Option 1 -- Makes a lot of sense, wasn't it the NSA that went to a lot of
> lengths to encourage the US government to restrict the use and export of
> strong encryption technology?? I wouldn't be suprised if they did.
>
> Option 2 -- Good marketing point { read bait } hey we're the NSA, its
> believed by the lay person that we employ a shitload of the very best
> gurus of encryption and related data security. So if we built a secure OS
> it would have to be really really secure right!....hmm maybe.
>
> Possibilities -- They really are interested in assisting and using the
> Linux community to help evolve highly secure OS technologies for
> themselves primarily and the rest of the community as a public relations
> gain. With other forms of eaves dropping available and the fact that most
> of the uses for such stuff would be in the server world rather than the
> user space, coupled with very insecure windows products on the majority of
> the worlds user platforms they may have enough other ways of getting at
> targeted data.
>
> -- They do want to produce a land of 'back doors'
> and by offering up the source code, believe that those doors are hidden
> well enough from even the most skilled of the linux community. Or the
> 'back doors' have been built subtly enough so that should they be noticed
> it will look like accidents/bad programming offering them the face saving
> option of saying 'oops must have been a mistake by one of our junior
> programmers'.
>
> Who knows, only time will tell and all that. In the interim, I reckon we
> grab hold of this technology, say thankyou very much and run with it. If
> it has flaws someone will be stung eventually and let the rest of us know
> or some clever dick will see it in the source code and offer a patch or
> seven.
>
> At least we are moving towards more secure computing, definitely more open
> than anything from Microsoft.
>
> arguments??
>
> D.
>
>
>
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