[codexon]

Bruce Schneier explains why that is not a back door.

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros...

So other than this, are there any other NSA "backdoors in everything from crypto systems, operating systems, to even backdoors themselves"?

[zedshaw]

Oh, the great Bruce Schneier says so, so therefore it must be. How do you know he's not a shill for Microsoft and the NSA? Hmm?

The great thing about backdoors is, when they get discovered they have perfect plausible deniability. "Oh that key named NSAKEY isn't for the NSA it's for...uh...this other agency. Yeah that's it! It's not even a key. Right Bruce? Right?!"

[william42]

Are you going to deny any contrary evidence as being a shill for the people you're accusing? Down that path lies madness and conspiracies, Zed.

[code_duck]

Oh, so the great Zed Shaw says Schneier saying it's so doesn't make it so.

The great thing about people accusing others of subterfuge is how it may never reach a suitable end.

How do we know Zed Shaw is not a shill for those opposing those for whom Bruce Schneier is a shill?? What to do!

[Create]

They are an eco-friendly CO_2 emission reducing measure to reduce workload, in a desperate attempt to comply with KIOTO. They needed it to conform to the Energy Star certification scheme from the DoE.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.52.html#subj1