Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/10/22 David King <linux...@avoura.com>: >> That's a good way to describe it -- Software with Secrets. Including a >> backdoor so that US govt agencies can spy on you, > > [[citation needed]] > >> as well as the WGA >> tool to report back any activity on your PC to Microsoft. >> > > [[citation needed]] > > I'd be interested in seeing proof of those two statements.. > > Cheers, > Al.
Stallman asserts that XP uses a technique for updates which allows something to be installed on your computer which is specific to your particular computer, thus allowing for, in principle, the possibility that software such as back door could be targeted to a machine, not through the initial OS, but via later updates. In video this is discussed about halfway through this 6th part of (a very interesting) video sequence: Richard Stallman On FOSS GNU And Freedom 6 of 14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQiJCc64-0&feature=PlayList&p=C2233C191A464B26&index=5 -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
