From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 4 1: 3: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 918E31504A for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 01:03:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicrecords.com) Received: (qmail 8649 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 1999 08:00:59 -0000 Message-ID: <19990904080059.8647.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Received: (qmail 8630 invoked from network); 4 Sep 1999 08:00:58 -0000 Received: from adsl-216-103-90-137.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO walton) (216.103.90.137) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 1999 08:00:58 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: Donald Burr , SBLUG Users Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:58:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: (fwd) CNN - Crypto expert: Microsoft products leave door open to NSA - September 3, 1999 (fwd) Reply-To: walton@nordicrecords.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Donald Burr said: > Whoo boy, this is pretty scary actually. Big Brother *IS* > watching you! > > >http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/windows.nsa/ Here's a page that covers it in more detail: http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html It includes an interesting detail that CNN missed: "Note for Win2k - there appear to be three keys in Win2k; Microsoft's, the NSA's, and an unknown third party's." Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message