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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by partiallypro on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @01:40PM (#22937267)
I guess to be fair, this was in 2000. Before we knew the Snowden revelations, etc. I also wonder if he handed over just the source code to the shareware version or the full version? Also, nearly everything is open sourced now...so I guess it isn't the biggest boundary to cross?
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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by raverbashing on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:56PM (#22938713)
> I also wonder if he handed over just the source code to the shareware version or the full version?

It's probably an #IFDEF or an if (registered) somewhere in the source code.

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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by secfirstmd on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @02:58PM (#22938169)
We knew about Crypto AG and Echelon at this point though.
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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by jacobush on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:15PM (#22939405)
I knew about Echelon in 1998, but nobody I talked to would believe a word of it. (Or rather, I "knew" what other people ranted about on web pages with badly scanned photos of satellite dishes. But still.)
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