Screw Micro$haft! Use Linux!

Microsoft has given in to the federal government’s wiretapping and eavesdropping requests! I went to a friend’s house one evening to help figure out a problem for him.  He was using Windows Vista.  He complained that it seemed like someone was using his computer, as several times per day he would notice his hard drive lights flickering heavily for a few minutes and that his modem would show one-minute periods of activity when he wasn’t even using any online applications.

I used my own Linux network observation equipment from home to watch the traffic going into and out of his computer for a couple of days, with his permission of course.  What I found is quite alarming!  The traffic was going to several servers linked to Microsoft AND one federal agency.  And it was encrypted! Knowing that the only way something can go from a computer in encrypted format, I knew the computer has to have encryption keys on the hard drive.  So I did some research online and found that Microsoft has encryption / secure keys on computers, and so does the federal government, in the form of NSA KEYS!  NSA stands for National Security Agency, located in Maryland.