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Calgary, AB
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Re: Dept. of HS: NSA 'Helped' Develop Vista and Windows Seven said by Dude111:Windows 7 probably has all kinds of spyware communicating with Microsoft. ITS THE WORST OS FOR PRIVACY!! (Even if doing nothing wrong,PRIVACY SHOULD BE YOURS ON YOUR COMPUTER!) Perhaps some evidence is in order here? I'm always somewhat amazed at claims like this as really putting a network sniffer on and seeing exactly what traffic there is and where it came from and where its going is really beginner security dude 101 stuff, and yet no one has been able to prove that Microsoft is spying on anyone. Certainly someone on a site with a community as large as DSLReports would have some hard evidence of such behavior.
Now I often turn on feedback features so vendors know how/what/etc I'm using their products, in some cases I do it as part of my testing of their future products and yet I've suffer no ill effects financial, personally or otherwise, so unless someone can back up these sorts of claims, I can only assume their tin foil is on way to tight. Now granted I only test products from reputable companies (including Microsoft) and Ivor's Credit Card Processor from some hackastan country isn't on my 'to test' software list as I'm sure I already know what kind of credit card processing they are going to do, so there is no need to test that 
Blake
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 Woody79_00I run Linux am I still a PC?Premium
join:2004-07-08
united state | Another reason to use Linux I say |
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| said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol |
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1 edit | said by DarkSithPro:said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol No, it ported its "FLASK" MAC/MLS architecture to Linux so that development of the system could continue in the public domain. This was done back in 2000 and is now called SELinux. Red Hat has been enabling a SELinux profile by default for a number of years now.
SELinux is not a distro -- it's a kernel patch. And it is a different animal from what M$ has been doing. For one, SELinux is open-source so the community can be assured there are no NSA backdoors in the code. No such verification is possible with M$ and its closed code. You just have to take their word for it. |
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| said by KodiacZiller:said by DarkSithPro:said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol No, it ported its "FLASK" MAC/MLS architecture to Linux so that development of the system could continue in the public domain. This was done back in 2000 and is now called SELinux. Red Hat has been enabling a SELinux profile by default for a number of years now. SELinux is not a distro -- it's a kernel patch. And it is a different animal from what M$ has been doing. For one, SELinux is open-source so the community can be assured there are no NSA backdoors in the code. No such verification is possible with M$ and its closed code. You just have to take their word for it. These are significant variables. . .thus the benefits to Win/Linux are difficult to gauge when weighed within this particular context.
Open source can/has been "contaminated" in the past. . .yet I tend to draw more to the open source side for the obvious reasons. |
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 ironwalker World RenownedPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-31
Keansburg, NJ | reply to Woody79_00
said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say With SELinux!  |
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said by KodiacZiller:said by DarkSithPro:said by Woody79_00:Another reason to use Linux I say Didn't the NSA make it's own Linux Distro a while back, and released to the Public? lol No, it ported its "FLASK" MAC/MLS architecture to Linux so that development of the system could continue in the public domain. This was done back in 2000 and is now called SELinux. Red Hat has been enabling a SELinux profile by default for a number of years now. SELinux is not a distro -- it's a kernel patch. And it is a different animal from what M$ has been doing. For one, SELinux is open-source so the community can be assured there are no NSA backdoors in the code. No such verification is possible with M$ and its closed code. You just have to take their word for it. Pardon my French, but why the f***k would anyone ever want their Government to put code into their Operating Systems? |
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