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Old 03-05-2008, 05:23 PM
Moshe Goldfarb
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Default Re: Does kernel 2.6 include an NSA backdoor?

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:30:30 -0000, Chris Mattern wrote:

> On 2008-03-05, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.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

>
> Linux is not a protocol, standard or otherwise.


To a Linux advocacy loon:

A. Linux is the kernel.
B. Except when Linux is not the kernel.

Pick either A or B depending upon what argument you are involved in and
which one suits your POV at the moment.

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