Linux User & Developer: “Trusted” Computing

“One of the most disturbing recent news items was watching the
Chinese President, Hu Jintao, meeting with Bill Gates at the
Gates’s mansion, even before he met with President George Bush. A
smiling Hu Jintao mentioned how he used Mr. Gates operating system
every day, and Bill promised to help him out with technical
support. But Bill and the Redmond crowd might be helping out with
more than just technical support, and not to help the Chinese
government either.

“Humour me a moment, while I take a little diversion back to
1982. The largest non-nuclear explosion ever recorded by satellite
took place in Russia in 1982, and was an explosion in the Siberian
gas pipeline. The shocking, and little-known truth about this
catastrophe was that it was directly caused by the CIA by
deliberately giving the Soviet Union modified software (in binary
only format of course) that was engineered to destroy the
pipeline…”

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