From: John McCormac (jmcc at domain hackwatch.com)
Date: Mon 04 Oct 1999 - 05:04:41 IST
Mike Knell wrote:
>
> > 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
Not exactly. It was more like a non-denial denial.
> 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.
With all due respect Mike, M$ products have been repeatedly proven
insecure. Other potential weakpoints in the M$ systems exist but the
discovery of annotations in the code leads to even greater unease. NSA
tends to infiltrate where ever and when ever they can. M$ is an easy
target as was Lotus with the spiked Lotus Notes. It would be highly
unusual if an OS shipped M$ was actually secure. If you can remember
back to the M$ PTP tunnelling fiasco, you will recall that M$ never has
had a good reputation for crypto.
Regards...jmcc
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