Re: How much longer?

["Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>]

I flamed Mr. rude off list, but there is one point that I would like to
respond to on list...

The original poster asked whether a development was due to an unofficial
government policy.

Aside from all the nastier parts of the PATRIOT act (and Magic Lantern and
the other stuff that's already been mentioned), and given the complexity of
modern software, backdoors from vendors and strategic agreements between
government and private industry, whether for their own use or as part of 
a 'comic-book neo-con conspiracy', are real. 'nuf said.

G

On or about 2004.02.12 12:18:36 +0000, cptnug (cptnug-fulldisclosure () batray net) said:

> My own opinion is that most software is so bad security-wise there's just
> no need for explicit backdoors. The US government TLAs can trust software
> developers (and if not them, the users) to make enough mistakes that they
> don't need to force or ask them to put in backdoors on purpose.

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