OT: NSA story keeps getting bigger...

[Derek Trotter]

On 06/06/2013 08:04 PM, Nathan England wrote:
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> During the antitrust trials it came out that the NSA has had a back 
> door into Microsoft for years. We all know the NSA has a back door 
> into Linux with the Selinux code...
>
Is it possible to use encryption software (pgp, truecrypt, etc) without 
selinux or in such a way the selinux backdoor isn't a problem?
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> Why not encryption stuff? I'm sure it's there and we just don't know 
> it yet. Doesn't one of the guys who created RSA work for the NSA? Or 
> am I thinking of someone else?
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> <duck>I bet Lisa is a plant!</duck>
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> Nathan
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> On Thursday, June 06, 2013 04:59:56 PM Derek Trotter wrote:
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> This country is looking less and less like a free country every day.  
> I read a few days ago that the FBI wants a back door to all encryption 
> software.  Some may think they're doing nothing illegal, they have 
> nothing to hide, but the way the IRS and EPA are harassing B.O.'s 
> opponents proves that notion wrong.
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> On 06/06/2013 03:24 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
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> wow, just wow.
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> Eric
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