[OT] Re: Windows woes

[Georg Wrede]

Dylan wrote:
> In article <442D6DD7.8050204 at nospam.org>, Georg Wrede says...
> 
>> Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> 
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Turns out, I did have a trojan rootkit on my system. arrgh!
>>> 
>>> It's more and more problematic... from Slashdot today.
>>> 
>>> http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/31/0741221.shtml
>>> 
>>> As a test, I've a rootkit installed on an Windows machine from 3 
>>> years, and it's still undetected. ;-(
>> 
>> That made a thought cross my mind.
>> 
>> If I were the *head* of a three-letter government agency [you name
>> it, or then it's one whose name we don't even know] today, I'd sure
>> as heck tell B. Gates to install a for-me-only backdoor to Windows,
>> such that if "we" really feel threatened, then I can shut down all
>> the Windowses in the [non-free] world. Or hopefully, a more
>> accurately defined selection.
>> 
>> Yes, yes, this is not serious, so please no flames from anyone. I'm
>> just jotting down corollaries to the thought.
>> 
>> Anyhow, we all see the trend: computers are becoming more and more
>>  essential -- for _anything_ these days. One day (be it next year,
>> or 200 years from now) some bad-butt _will_ launch a major attack
>> upon somebody else (not even necessarily the U.S.). It would be
>> pretty reasonable to hope that there's something we [the "defenders
>> of the Free World", or whoever -- no offense] can do about it. And
>> nukes are no match for a global digital assault.
>> 
>> Next season's "24" might do well to belabor this thought.
>> Seriously.
>> 
>> ----
>> 
>> Frankly, I'm not even sure I'd be against such a back door. (Not
>> that I'm for it either, but building a solid opinion on it should
>> not be done off-hand. There are too many implications, pros and
>> cons involved. And the issue is way too important to just dismiss
>> to either side.)
>> 
>> Their [the afore-not-mentioned three-letter agency] problem of
>> course is Linux and BSD. But I would not be surprised if this issue
>> didn't come up somewhere (secretly or publicly) within the next 10
>> years.
>> 
>> Like laws in every single country stating that Internet Cafes using
>>  Linux have to have such a backdoor explicitly installed, lest they
>> face huge fines.
>> 
>> ----
>> 
>> No idea where this thought is leading, and I really don't care or
>> know. But thought it'd be appropriate to write it _somewhere_ as
>> soon as it came up.
>> 
>> ----
>> 
>> Hmmm. After proofreading, seems Windows is not enough. "I" should
>> go talk with Cisco Systems too. (Routers, backbone HW.)




> If? Thats a good one. If you seriously analize the components of
> windows - from the context of a data collection system - everything
> that didnt make sense, begins to make completely perfect sense.
> 
> Windows is a government data collection device masquerading as an
> Operating System.

Heh, yeah, that I read a couple of messages back. It must've still been 
in the back of my mind.

(Ehh, please spell it like "analyze", lest lewd people get ideas.)

All I can say is, I promise not to raise an eyebrow when somebody 
prooves that. :-)