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    Image of twig twig
    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental constants of the DES algorithm were contributed by the NSA; they were viewed with some suspicion until many years later, when it was discovered that they made the algorithm suspiciously resilient in the face of a cryptanalytic attack that was not publicly known at the time of the standard's creation.

    More recently, there was this: [en.wikipedia.org]

    The purpose of this collaboration is unknown, but it is not new news.
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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    Seeing as the bulk of Windows IT and development is outsourced and offshored, how is this a bad idea?

    Corps and end users really don't care where their data will end up -- at least our wonderful government *does*.

    This evolutionary move just warms my blackened heart.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies and not others? Why does the NSA get to choose which ventures to provide its expertise to? This is just the powerful helping the powerful, on our dime and at our expense.
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    Image of DTurkin DTurkin
    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    Based on the 'takes one to know one' principle, I reckon the NSA should have had some important insight on maintaining privacy. Maybe they also collaborated with Microsoft in planting a few 'backdoors' for national security purposes...
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    Oh sure, like Gawker hasn't had a long, tawdry relationship with SIS.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    "We're serving hot fruit!"
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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    This is so ripe for a mumblecore parody.
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    Image of ihatetwitter ihatetwitter
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    Is the black guy the caterer?
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    Image of superconnected (is it time to leave?) superconnected (is it time to leave?)
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    Guys, guys guys. Windows is for the Normal People! And normal people love having contrived educational videos reminiscent of the '70s fed to them, because they won't be going to ironic screening of 16mm trash film parties like the rest of us.

    Bad acting and awkward scripts are the Chicken Soup to the (North) American soul, and why would we deny our more conventionally pop cultured compatriots this opportunity? Who needs clonazepam when you have Nostalgia?
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    09/23/09

    @superconnected (is it time to leave?): Mac Guy? Is that you?
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    Can I invite Clippy and Bob?
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    You call this advertising? I don't want to have sex with any of them.
    Also, shouldn't there be an asian in there somewhere?
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    Image of markscottmusic markscottmusic
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    I mean, really, what are those four people even doing in the same room?!
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    09/23/09

    @markscottmusic: they just wrapped from the college brochure photo shoot and decided to throw a party...
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    Image of TabithaIapetus TabithaIapetus
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    Windows 7 is the new Tupperware.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    The League Of Extraordinary Social Retards.

    or

    Bob & Carol & Ted & Asperger's
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    09/23/09

    In reply to Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
    I'm having a Blue Screen of Death party.
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