[Am-info] Gates gets governmemnt security at tax payer expense

[Fred Miller]

On Tuesday August 3 2004 4:55 am, Hans Reiser wrote:
> A more serious worry is that the department of homeland security has
> standardized on windows, and is now trying to make it secure, which I
> fear will perhaps wind up being an enormous subsidy for the windows OS.
>
> If you guys are going to make remarks about our intelligence services
> being morons (they are), keep in mind that at a time when the Russians
> and Chinese and Europeans and everyone competent is moving from windows
> to linux for their intelligence services, we are standardizing on
> windows.  Yes, they are the least competent intelligence agency in the
> world, and their ability to select an OS without knowing or caring that
> it has a few security problems is one of the measures of it.  They are
> so far behind the Russians in skill level, it is a sad joke.....

I don't know if it will do any good, but I sent a few comments and your post 
to the White House. Ya never know..............

Fred

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