Re: IP: If you have never looked at Network Associates PGP tryit license

Subject: Re: IP: If you have never looked at Network Associates PGP tryit license
From: Bill Sommerfeld (sommerfeldorchard.arlington.ma.us)
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 16:31:55 CST

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> That's easy --- don't use Windows! Use the Unix version of PGP or GPG,
> and run it under Linux, and the Linux kernel sources if you're paranoid
> that someone else hasn't caught any attempts to put backdoors into the
> software. After all, you want an Open Source OS to make sure someone
> hasn't tapped your keyboard driver, don't you? :-)

Uhh, Ted, I'm as big a fan of Open Source software as you are, but
who's to say that the compiler or the kernel of the system used to
build your kernel hasn't been hacked to insert a self-replicating back
door? :-)

                                        - Bill

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