even in the (very) unlikely event MS actually ships a Pall-Windows without cryptographic backdoors no one will believe it. All those foreign countries are gonna have to choose between adopting linux or being Bill's bitch, and they're gonna have to get motherboards and CPU chips from somewhere.
Exactly: who's going to trust Microsoft (or fill in other large company's name) not to build in a backdoor. The only way they can be trusted is (now where have I heard this before?) if their source code is open for review.
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...and Arnie warns people not to see T3 unless they are prepared to choke to death on the incredibly lame ending...
Similarly in the SF genre there's a short story called The Sandkings by GRRM that's pretty good too.
"Sandkings" and all the other stories in the book of the same name are excellent. The book's out of print now, but worth looking for.
even in the (very) unlikely event MS actually ships a Pall-Windows without cryptographic backdoors no one will believe it. All those foreign countries are gonna have to choose between adopting linux or being Bill's bitch, and they're gonna have to get motherboards and CPU chips from somewhere.
Exactly: who's going to trust Microsoft (or fill in other large company's name) not to build in a backdoor. The only way they can be trusted is (now where have I heard this before?) if their source code is open for review.