>>>This is an interesting article if we are to understand why M$ is so flawed. The article suggests the flaws are by design to allow our betters access to our systems and purchasing decisions.
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>>>The Article also offers a simple method to secure Windows (FDISK).
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>>>Check it:
>>>http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298702.html
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>>now there is a paranoid person.
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>I guess that's what MS (and the gov't?) likes people to conclude when reading such stuff.
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>There is that old phrase... "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get me.".
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>Microsoft is supplying less and less real "documentation" for its systems and their features. Microsoft is letting other people publish their own "documentation" on how they (the publisher) imagines a MS system (component) to actually work.
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>Personally I'm more inclined to be VERY WARY of Microsoft than to "trust" it!!!!!!

i am not saying i am trusting MS. I am also not saying that there are no bugs (or hidden fetures) in MS products - show me one app without any bugs.

i am just saying that the authors intepretation of those bugs are those of a paranoid person. i (personal opinion) do not belive that those bugs are intentionaly build in, in order to 'spy' on us. is there some feedback from our machines to ms - most likly yes. but thats where it ends. its not a conspiracy to get us or to freely foreward that data to the federal government. and thats what he is trying to make us belive.

'those' open source people always crack me up. they complaine about the unsecure/dangerous MS products - but yet open source are the most unsecure programs by definition itself.