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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 05:58:36 -0500
From: "Pete McVay" 
Subject: German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping

The German foreign office and Bundeswehr are pulling the plugs on Microsoft
software, citing security concerns, according to the German news magazine
*Der Spiegel*, which claims that German security authorities suspect that
the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft
source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest
secrets.  The Bundeswehr will no longer use American software (we surmise
this includes Larry and Scott as well) on computers used in sensitive areas.
The German foreign office has meanwhile put plans for videoconferencing with
its overseas embassies on hold, for similar reasons.  Undersecretary of
State Gunter Pleuger is said by *Der Spiegel* to have discovered that "for
technical reasons" the satellite service that was to be used was routed via
Denver, Colorado.

According to a colleague of Pleuger, this meant that the German foreign
services "might as well hold our conferences directly in Langley." We're not
entirely sure whose interesting video conferencing via satellite service has
a vital groundstation in Denver, but we note that Pleuger seems to have
gleaned this information from a presentation held earlier this month in
Berlin by, er, Deutsche Telekom.  Which just happens, along with Siemens, to
have picked up the gig.  The two companies have supplanted Microsoft (and
anything else American) and will be producing a secure, home-grown system
that the German military can be confident in.

  [From an article by John Lettice in *The Register*, 17 Mar 2001,
  German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17679.html]


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