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NSA Advises Upgrade To Windows 7

Posted by timothy on from the even-with-the-new-openbsd dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a document available from the NSA (warning, PDF file), that organisation advises users to upgrade to Windows 7 as part of their Best Practice for Securing a Home Network. No mention of BSD or Linux so I guess the Slashdot crowd will just have to bite the bullet and change operating systems if they want to be really secure."

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  1. So... by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

    this means that there's an even better backdoor for the NSA in Win7?

    --
    "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
    1. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The backdoor in XP only gives them a master algorithm

      It's actually a master key. The algorithm is well known, and is publicly available (like your mother).

      something else I haven't thought of

      Like Microsoft and Intel working together, to add a backdoor at the processor level? You should have thought of that. Hand in your badge, you're not a real nerd.

      they [Microsoft] actually care about your security

      You're such a dumbass.

      ...without insulting my mother, my nerd-status, or my intellect

      oops