Re: Microsoft Collaborated with the NSA on Vista Security?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Right. Whatever. :-)

- - ferg


- -- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:44:50 GMT, Fergie said:
> Huh? Yeah, that's what I said. :-)
>
> I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but given the NSA's
> background in surreptitious surveillance, this is yet another
> reason why I will never, never own a Vista system.

Good.  You can't install a Linux system either - NSA was involved in
SELinux.

Most people don't realize the NSA has *two* charges - they're familiar
with the Signals Intelligence side of the fence, and don't realize that
there's also the Information Assurance group - and *their* charge is to
secure *our* computers against *them*.

http://www.nsa.gov/ia/

Among other things, they do some really nice "how to secure an XYZ" guides:

http://www.nsa.gov/snac/index.cfm?MenuID=scg10.3.1

They also provide a lot of technical assistance to the guys at NIST:
http://csrc.nist.gov/

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