[ale] [Fwd: Pirate Banned from Using Linux]

[Michael B. Trausch]

Jeff Lightner, on 08/24/2007 12:58 PM said:
>
> The bigger picture here is that the government seems to know it can 
> easily monitor someone using Windoze.  They aren't so sure about
> Linux.
> 
> When I worked in telecom it disgusted me that the government
> regularly created regulations or laws that REQUIRED back doors into
> phone systems. Rather than requiring good old fashioned police work
> to catch criminals they want to be able to spy on all of us on the
> off chance we are criminals.
> 

Yuck.

Didn't the government argue to try to require a back door for PGP, as well?

	-- Mike

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