Re: Microsoft Windows is a CIA operating system ?

From: Bill McKenzie (bmckenzie@driver.attbbs.com)
Date: 04/22/02

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    From: "Bill McKenzie" <bmckenzie@driver.attbbs.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:32:55 -0500

    I have always wanted to play around with a completely asynchronous processor
    design. Maybe security could be the impetus for this move :) 

    --
Bill McKenzie

    <jcochran at naplesgov dot com (Jeff Cochran)> wrote in message
news:3cc40f8c.250792380@news.supernews.com...
> >> Microsoft Windows is a CIA operating system ?
> >>
> >> Is Microsoft Windows a CIA operating system ? What is the
> >> guarantee that it is not, unless you re-compile the OS kernel code
> >> yourself?
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Bottom line is: YOU MUST GET OPEN SOURCE operating system and compile
> >> the
> >> kernel code yourself and put them on all server machines!!
> >> ...
> >
> >Ok, but what if the compiler is doing something behind your back?  You'd
> >better read the compiler source and compile the compiler yourself...
>
> Far more appropriate would be to write the compiler, and the OS, from
> scratch, using no known coding techniques, langauges or algorithms.
> In fact, designing and manufacturing the chip itself would be
> warranted, you never know what Intel might have slipped in, especially
> since they opened the new chip line in the old Area 51 complex after
> the secret meeting between Andy Grove, Alan Greenspan and a short,
> gray being with only four fingers...
>
> Jeff

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