[plug] The joys of closed source...

[Chris Caston]

That's nothing. You should have seen how many infiltrated the
development team for Windows XP.

I don't use XP but apparently there's as easter egg where you can bring
up a picture of Osama with the words: 

"You're failure to praise Allah will now result in the contents of your
my documents folder being sacrificed to him." 

regards,

Chris


On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 20:31, Shayne wrote:
> 
> If this aint a powerfull argument for open source in mission critical systems,
> I don't know what is. I used to work doing some contract programming with
> the army and Aust Defence Industries... And dude, there was NO WAY they'd
> let me 'play' with open source.... Maybe this is a wake up.
> 
> Shayne
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: FC: Feds raid Mass. software company, allege ties with bin Laden
> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:02:08 -0500
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> To: politech at politechbot.com
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72345,00.html
> 
>     Feds Raid Software Company Suspected of Terror Ties
>     Friday, December 06, 2002
> 
>     BOSTON -- Federal agents late Thursday night raided a Quincy, Mass.,
>     company that provides critical software to major U.S. agencies and is
>     suspected of having ties to Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda terrorists.
> 
>     Ptech Inc.'s clients include the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Energy
>     Department, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Naval air systems,
>     the U.S. Air Force, NATO, the U.S. House of Representatives, the
>     Department of Energy and the agency that handles nuclear weapons
>     security, according to its Web site.
> 
>     U.S. Customs agents confirmed reports of the raid early Friday
>     morning.
> 
>     Officials suspect "back doors" may have been built into Ptech software
>     that could enable terrorists to access federal computers.
> 
>     The raid "appears to be an important break," former FBI chief of
>     domestic terrorism Robert Blitzer told Fox News Friday morning.
> 
>     [...]
> 
> 
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