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No XP for the Army, I Can See You Too (was Re: IP: Softwar Enews)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Fri Oct 26 13:14:24 2001
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:29:33 -0400
To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
farber@cis.upenn.edu, Phil Agre <pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu>
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 10:11 PM -0700 on 10/25/01, softwarsup@ctsi.net wrote:
> NO XP FOR THE ARMY
> Dept. of Defense officials have nixed a large buy
> of the Microsoft XP operating
> system and any PCs that have XP installed. The
> U.S. military has determined
> that the online registration of the Microsoft
> operating system simply gives up
> too much information about the Defense Dept.
> computers and software.
>
> I CAN SEE YOU TOO
> The move by U.S. law enforcement to ban anonymous
> Internet Web browsing has had
> unintended consequences. Anonymous web browsing
> was very popular with U.S.
> intelligence agencies and government military
> users who did not want others to
> know exactly what information was being accessed.
> Although the government may
> now be able to more easily track U.S. citizens on
> the Internet - the same is
> true in reverse. For example, on Oct. 24 at 5:30
> pm the Bush White House
> visited the www.softwar.net website and
> downloaded information on the China-Gate
> scandal.
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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