Sickening shilling for MS by Ontario privacy commissioner

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, David J Patrick wrote:

> On 20/10/06, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>  I agree. Even if this was a Microsoft specific technology, which it
>>  isn't, Microsoft employs some of the most notable computer scientists
>>  on the planet so they are bound to have a few good ideas now and
>>  then.
>
> So let me see if I got this right;
> If the Ontario's privacy commissioner manages to have us all adopt
> privacy and security measures based on Windows Vista unproven
> technologies, while allowing the Redmond team to inject proprietary
> versions of existing security methods, that will only run on Vista
> (and the very new hardware it requires) and passing the brunt of the
> provinces secure authentication transactions to a private company
> across the border.. you're OK with that ?

     No. I'm not OK with that, but that's not what was said in the
     article.

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