__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Wednesday 10 January 2007 17:29 \__
> [Context is the implication that the NSA helped with Vista is somehow an
> argument against using Vista]
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2222527.k9mk1gMr7o@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Government spooks helped Microsoft build Vista
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36814
>>
>> "The assistance is at the US taxpayers' expense..."
>>
>> This only proves that the Government continues to shelter the covicted
>> monopolist as long as it extracts money from the rest of the world and
>> plants back doors in ~80% of the desktop PC's in the world.
>
> The NSA also works on Apple OSX and Linux:
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801352.html
> <quote>
> Other software makers have turned to government agencies for security
> advice, including Apple, which makes the Mac OS X operating system. "We
> work with a number of U.S. government agencies on Mac OS X security and
> collaborated with the NSA on the Mac OS X security configuration guide,"
> said Apple spokesman Anuj Nayar in an e-mail.
>
> Novell, which sells a Linux-based operating system, also works with
> government agencies on software security issues, spokesman Bruce Lowry said
> in an e-mail, "but we're not in a position to go into specifics of the who,
> what, when types of questions."
> </quote>
>
> See also http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
Yes, I mentioned and addressed this in my reply to Peter (yesterday's post).
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