On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Eugen Leitl wrote:

Black-helicopter mode sidestepping would be having pre-arranged back doors in popular operating systems or client software.

Yes: Remember NT4's infamous "NSA Key" field (never proven to be active as far as I know, but if it's there, I don't believe its not active. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xF6D40CF5 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." Joseph Pulitzer 1907 Speech