German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping (fwd)

[guybz at world.std.com (Guy W Bzibziak)]

Found this while cleaning up the in box.... verrry interrresting.....!

Especially the first article.

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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:02:02 -0500
From: Jim Jaszewski <grok at SPRINT.CA>
Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L at YORKU.CA>
To: LABOR-L at YORKU.CA
Subject: German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping

Hey -- don't take it from Chicken Little ME -- take it from Der Spiegel,
the Deutsches Bundeswehr and  the Bundesrepublik's foreign office...

Article at (the prestigious) The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17679.html

Der Spiegel story:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,123170,00.html


Sayonara, Bill Gates, you shit.
GNU/Linux here we come.


Jim J.

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