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To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (9192)	4/19/1998 11:00:00 AM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Respond to of 64865

QUESTION TO ALL: How many back doors do you think WIN95 and WIN98 have? In other words, if MSFT's OS is closed they can put any back door in their software that they want. Is it possible that MSFT could make a secret deal with the Feds in which a back door is provided anonymously in the MSFT OSes to allow surveillance of machines connected to the Internet? Who needs encryption back doors when you can access the machines through an OS back door and get someones encryption keys. Politically this could happen as well. SCENARIO> FED: BG keep your billions if you give us a backdoor to your windows OSes BG: sure we'll give you a back door if you lay off this antitrust suite business. FED: much of our secure information is on Unix. To protect it we would like to steer the masses away from any use of Unix. Windows fits that bill. BG: we can help you out, oh by the way I'll invest another $2 billion in treasury bills if things work out.