[ILUG] A scary story and another good reason to go with Linux

[John_White at dell.com]

Besides, didn't NSA force a similar thing with crypt() in the 1980's?


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Treacy [mailto:delphi91 at hotmail.com]
Sent: 03 October 1999 15:20
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] A scary story and another good reason to go with
Linux


Sorry, I didn't realise that this one had been around before. I only found 
it today.


>From: Mike Knell <mpk at lspace.org>
>To: ilug at linux.ie
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] A scary story and another good reason to go with Linux
>Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 13:53:01 +0100
>
> > Have a read of this article:
> >
> > http://www.iol.ie/~kooltek/nsabackdoor.html
>
>Not this one again - wasn't it debunked about three weeks ago? The
>date on the article's the beginning of September. I believe this one
>was a case of jumping to conclusions before actually checking the facts.
>
>In summary - yes, there's an _NSAKEY there, but that's not what it's
>for.
>
>If I remember correctly, that is.
>
>m.
>
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