Well said, Paul ... but would you please clarify one point?

You said that there are "no crazy backdoors," but is it not true that M$
(and the NSA) can look at and/or extract/retrieve any data that they
might want from any M$ operating system based computer that is connected
to the Internet?  Perhaps you already acknowledged that in your comment
that any "data you put on the Internet is not private;" because,
connecting any M$ os based computer to the Internet is, no doubt,
"putting" all of that computer's data on the Internet.

Is it not true that M$ (with their proprietary (and hidden code)
operating system) can "look" undetected into any M$ os based computer
connected to the Internet, wherein M$ has given themselves read and write
"privileges" to "update," etc.; and is it true or not true that they have
embedded a special NSA-KEY as described in this article that was recently
shared on this PLUG list: 
www.wnd.com/2013/06/nsa-has-total-access-via-microsoft-windows/


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Paul last wrote, in part:
> ... If you have a
> fully patched Linux desktop with no externally listening services, no one
> (not even the NSA) can get in without going to extreme lengths.  People
> are so frightened by the PRISM controversy that they aren't acknowledging
> that it's great insight into how the government really does gather data,
> they ask for it while holding a really big gun.  There was no crazy
> backdoors or complex exploits involved, they just told companies that had
> data to give it to them and the companies complied.  The lesson we should
> be learning from this is that data you put on the Internet is not
> private, ever.


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