On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:10:43 -0800 (PST), plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:

>> It might be more complicated than this. They are said to have back doors in
>> *standard protocols* (Linux included) [1,2,3,4] and these are hard to get by
>> unless you are a security professional (I'm not). What about hardware-based
>> hacks [5] (in which case "Intel" might be just an abbreviation)? Remember that
>> they just need to sniff packets and then decrypt successfully in order to gain
>> remote access.
>
> Finally a mature response. I was beginning to think I was dealing with
> 11-year-olds.

You are dealing with the Linux advocate loons of comp.os.linux.advocacy.

What they lack in brains, they make up for in stupidity.

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