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Wes Groleau wrote:
> The above is a reference to spy code put in
 > intentionally by the softwware vendor.

Really? I was assuming that he was talking about
the reliability of Ada carrying over into an OS
developed using it, and that the unauthorized use
was due to code exploiting errors in the code to
bypass normal operation.

If you're just talking about adding some privacy
feature to an OS, I don't see much point in writing
a new OS from scratch just to get that feature. Why
not just add it to an existing OS?