Bill May Not Be To Blame, It Seems
Dec. 11th, 2009 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peristaltorI'm currently plowing through Michael C. Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon, a book compiled from his decades of research over at From The Wilderness. This stuff is fascinating, but I vowed to myself not to take it too seriously until I could verify at least a fraction of his copious references.
One bit of trivia piqued my interest, though. Remember when I accused security holes in Microsoft architecture of ruining lives? Ruppert notes that these back doors may not have been gates installed by Gates.
In this lengthy article (partially reprinted in Rubicon), Ruppert runs down the history of a fabled piece of software called PROMIS, one that proves critical to understanding current events. In gathering information, he notes something he heard from a source named McCoy:
That paragraph also appears in hard copies of Rubicon, New Society Publishers, 2006, p. 159, for those too fearful of reprisals to visit his site. I don't blame you.
One bit of trivia piqued my interest, though. Remember when I accused security holes in Microsoft architecture of ruining lives? Ruppert notes that these back doors may not have been gates installed by Gates.
In this lengthy article (partially reprinted in Rubicon), Ruppert runs down the history of a fabled piece of software called PROMIS, one that proves critical to understanding current events. In gathering information, he notes something he heard from a source named McCoy:
It was also not by coincidence then that, in the same winter of 94-95, McCoy revealed to me that he was using former Green Berets to conduct physical surveillance of the Washington, D.C. offices of Microsoft in connection with the Promis case. (From The Wilderness) has, within the last month, received information indicating that piracy of Microsoft products at the GE Aerospace Herndon facility were likely tied to larger objectives, possibly the total compromise of any Windows based product. It is not by chance that most of the military and all of the intelligence agencies in the U.S. now operate on Macintosh systems. (Emphasis mine.)
That paragraph also appears in hard copies of Rubicon, New Society Publishers, 2006, p. 159, for those too fearful of reprisals to visit his site. I don't blame you.