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Old 03-05-2008, 06:49 PM
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Default Re: Does kernel 2.6 include an NSA backdoor?

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Sebastian G.
<seppi@seppig.de>
wrote
on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:46:40 +0100
<6384laF26l55mU1@mid.dfncis.de>:
> Bill Baka wrote:
>
>
>>>> They do it because they can.
>>> They don't do it because they can't.

>>
>> Do you ever get out??
>> Just because you personally haven't gotten harassed by the government
>> doesn't mean they aren't watching you.

>
>
> No. You were claiming that they're accessing people's computers
> at the time, by an included backdoor. And that's obviously nonsense.


Not as obvious as one might think. I'd have to look to
see how BitTorrent works but my understanding is that a
daemon uses surplus bandwidth, for example.

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