Government spooks helped Microsoft build Vista

[James Knott]

Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> Looks like corruption is rife in the US with the NSA allegedly
> supporting Microsoft. Looks like soon it will be anti-American to not
> support Microsoft. (Bush-if you're not for us your against us) Now
> Novell is in with Microsoft. I don't know why I bother to continue to
> support Novell. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36814
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for long term IT strategies that won't land
> me on a terrorist list? Is RedHat really the only large non-Microsoft
> shop?
> RickT
>
>   
Please bear in mind that it is the responsibility of the NSA to ensure 
software is secure for certain government uses.  Any software that's to 
be used has to be certified. 
The list includes Unix, Windows, Netware and many others.  Getting the 
NSA to say your software is secure, is not selling out.  The NSA 
produced a secure version of Red Hat a few years ago.


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