Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-14 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
I am not a conspiracy nut. I think Oswald killed Kennedy all by himself; Roosevelt had no idea Pearl Harbor was about to be attacked; and Ben & Jerry only wanted to make great ice cream. But I think people are underestimating NSA if they think they would be afraid to introduce crypto vulnerabi

Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Blaze writes: >> But I still don't believe there are secret back-doors in commercial OSes >> because such things are too hard to keep secret. And I think the Lotus >> incident is more evidence that NSA isn't going to try to keep something >> like that secret s

Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Matt Blaze
> While writing about OS back-doors, I said: > > >I'm incredibly skeptical that Microsoft, IBM, or any other vendor > >intentionally provides back-doors for the NSA or anyone else. > > This was too strong, because there is in fact a counterexample that I'd > forgotten while composing that e-mail

Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Rick Smith
While writing about OS back-doors, I said: >I'm incredibly skeptical that Microsoft, IBM, or any other vendor >intentionally provides back-doors for the NSA or anyone else. This was too strong, because there is in fact a counterexample that I'd forgotten while composing that e-mail. Jim Gillogy

Re: IP: Gates, Gerstner helped NSA snoop - US Congressman

2000-04-13 Thread Rick Smith
Regarding the following article: >>From The Register, >http://www.theregister.co.uk/000412-20.html >- >Posted 12/04/2000 5:56pm by Graham Lea ... > . The >Register has seen an unofficial transcript of a luncheon meeting on Capitol >Hill of the Internet Caucus Panel Discussion about the ne