RE: Defense Secretary Defends Microsoft

["Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>]

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:17:21 +0100, Anonymous wrote:

>Subject: RE: Defense Secretary Defends Microsoft
>
>nobody@zor.hut.fi wrote:
>
>>And here we have Cohen thanking Microsoft for installing 
>>backdoors in the form of convenient bugs into Windows...
>
>Interesting interpretation.  The way I read it was Secretary 
>Cohen gaining support for the new U.S. plan to introduce a 
>military state.  If the military is responsible for technological 
>advances and the economy is dependent on the military then we 
>should all be grateful to the wonderful military and invite the
>troops into our homes and our lives with open arms.
>
>Fuck that.  The military is supposed to be dependent on the 
>taxpayers with a very limited scope of authory.  This is a 
>nice PR trick to justify U.S. plans to greatly increase the
>size of the U.S. military complex.


I was told by my computer hardware supplier that when you visit M$hit site, they 
"stripe" your hard drive by writing on it a serial number that won't get erased 
when you format or re-partition the drive.  
Is that true?

I was also told that they download your directory tree.  
Is that true?