Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 03, 2006 07:14 PM
I'm a bit surprised major non-US organisations, whether government or private, don't push open source and home grown OS software a lot more.
Given the
history of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON" title="wikipedia.org">Echelon</a wikipedia.org> and current terrorism/communism hysteria they'd be foolish to assume that the US isn't already
spying for the US' commercial and government advantage. Cryptography is no help when the US has the software keys to your computer.
e.g. The US CIA could put a keyboard sniffer on any network connected PC in China with a regular M$ update that reports back on subsequent updates. The CIA could use a secret government order to force M$ to do this and keep quiet even if M$ didn't want to. The risk/reward for the US on this is huge, particularly if they're careful to make it look like a virus so they've got plausible deniability.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 03, 2006 07:14 PMI'm a bit surprised major non-US organisations, whether government or private, don't push open source and home grown OS software a lot more.
Given the
history of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON" title="wikipedia.org">Echelon</a wikipedia.org> and current terrorism/communism hysteria they'd be foolish to assume that the US isn't already
spying for the US' commercial and government advantage. Cryptography is no help when the US has the software keys to your computer.
e.g. The US CIA could put a keyboard sniffer on any network connected PC in China with a regular M$ update that reports back on subsequent updates. The CIA could use a secret government order to force M$ to do this and keep quiet even if M$ didn't want to. The risk/reward for the US on this is huge, particularly if they're careful to make it look like a virus so they've got plausible deniability.
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