On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Actually davidchr wrote:

> It would be stupid of us to knowingly put a backdoor into Windows
> or any other MS product. A very large percentage of our customers
> reside outside the USA, and many of them don't trust US Companies as a
> rule. If we added backdoors to our software, we'd lose those customers
> (probably forever), and losing customers is not high on our priority
> list.

The back door is already there. When installing some recent service
packs, we are required to accept a license that allows you to,
without notification, make arbitrary changes to our computers, including
disabling software.

The back door itself may not be active right, but you've explicitly given
yourself the right to activate and use it.

cjs
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