How NSA access was built into Windows

[Steve Friedman]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 22 January 2007 15:44, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> I think the problem for others is that it's hard to tell exactly what
>> you've done and what you've changed in between these builds.  Your
>> mails haven't been exactly clear, concise, step-by-step descriptions
>> of how to reproduce a massive compile time decrease by removing
>> SELinux from your kernel config.
>>
>> I'm sure you can appreciate that to properly test and verify something
>> it is best to make the absolute minimal amount of changes in the
>> system between tests so that other factors can be ruled out.
>>
>> The idea is to provide proof and the ability for others to verify.
>> There should be no reason for a timing test to come down to a matter
>> of belief.  This isn't rocket science, but it's not church either. :)
>
> As I said in a previous posting, the only change between those two builds
> was ripping out the Livna versions of mplayer and mplayerplug-in and
> installing the Dries versions.  And disabling selinux.  Now which do you
> think might have had the major effect?
>
>

Without seeing (and diff'ing) the two configs and being able to duplicate 
the tests ourselves, who knows?

Steve Friedman