The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

> 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.


None of the things you mentioned gives any evidence that such a thing is
happening.

> I'd have to look to see how BitTorrent works but my understanding is that
> a daemon uses surplus bandwidth, for example.

Which is an obvious instance of the reasons why one shouldn't use untrusted
software. The BitTorrent client from Bram Cohen became untrustworthy when he
decided to cooperate with the media mafia.