How NSA access was built into Windows

[David G. Miller]

Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Won't we look stupid if we start jumping at the shadows of insubstantial 
> rumors!
>
> Temlakos
That usually isn't an issue for the conspiracy theory types.  Just to be 
on the safe side, I'll also ask Elvis to verify it the next time he 
drops by in his black helicopter.  We usually have plenty of time to 
talk on his flights from Area 51 to the grassy knoll (he likes to walk 
around a bit and the old, fake moon landing set back at Area 51 is a bit 
desolate).

Hint: the more people involved in a secret conspiracy, the less likely 
it is that the conspiracy will remain a secret.  Convoluted or 
obfuscated code tends to *attract* attention in open source because it's 
undesirable.  The main reason open source is stable and high quality is 
that lots of people all look at and understand the code.  Sometimes they 
do that to find and fix bugs; other time just for their own edification.

Cheers,
Dave

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