Forwarded from: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdysonat_private> Courtesy of Cryptography List. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:29:33 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rahat_private> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbsat_private>, dcsbat_private, cryptographyat_private, farberat_private, Phil Agre <pagreat_private> Subject: No XP for the Army, I Can See You Too (was Re: IP: Softwar Enews) At 10:11 PM -0700 on 10/25/01, softwarsupat_private wrote: > NO XP FOR THE ARMY > Dept. of Defense officials have nixed a large buy > of the Microsoft XP operating > system and any PCs that have XP installed. The > U.S. military has determined > that the online registration of the Microsoft > operating system simply gives up > too much information about the Defense Dept. > computers and software. > > I CAN SEE YOU TOO > The move by U.S. law enforcement to ban anonymous > Internet Web browsing has had > unintended consequences. Anonymous web browsing > was very popular with U.S. > intelligence agencies and government military > users who did not want others to > know exactly what information was being accessed. > Although the government may > now be able to more easily track U.S. citizens on > the Internet - the same is > true in reverse. For example, on Oct. 24 at 5:30 > pm the Bush White House > visited the www.softwar.net website and > downloaded information on the China-Gate > scandal. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rahat_private> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomoat_private - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomoat_private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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