[117545] in Cypherpunks
Re: IP: two more on NSA KEy one from Spafford and one from MS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Sun Sep 5 14:23:25 1999
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:09:32 -0400
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From: Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
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Reply-To: Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
At 8:15 AM -0500 9/5/99, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <v04210137b3f8117fb59c@[204.167.100.144]>, on 09/05/99
> at 09:05 AM, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> said:
>
> >Well, it is always easier to believe a conspiracy theory or dark designs.
>
> >However, there may be alternative explanations.
>
>I have an alternative theory that the M$ spin doctors are sure not to
>bring up:
See Bruce Schneier's comments in NTBUGTRAQ. As he notes, if anyone
wants to take over or install backdoors into NT, there are easier,
better ways than using the CAPI.
>
>The real security issue here is that no one knows what M$ is doing with
>their code. What we do know is that they have shown their incompetents
>every time a security issue presents itself.
Another reason to disbelieve conspiracy theories related to CAPI. :-)
--spaf
