No XP for the Army, I Can See You Too.

Forwarded from: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson_at_treachery.net>

Courtesy of Cryptography List.

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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:29:33 -0400
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah_at_shipwright.com>
To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs_at_philodox.com>, dcsb_at_ai.mit.edu,
    cryptography_at_wasabisystems.com, farber_at_cis.upenn.edu,
    Phil Agre <pagre_at_alpha.oac.ucla.edu>
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, softwarsup_at_ctsi.net 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.

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