What if Mrs Forsyth's computer ran Linux?

[keithpeter]

Hello All

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8913354.stm

""Unfortunately, the American intelligence services listened to it and wasted my wife's computer screen and totalled all her lunch dates," he claims. "

Is Mr Forsyth suffering from mild paranoia?

Is Linux any better at resisting such attacks?

(Admiration for Mr Forsyth for filing a story though)

[slackthumbz]

I think this is indeed a case of paranoia and attention whoring. The most likely cause of the machine bricking itself is simple hardware failure.

[aeiah]

i take claims made by a guy who doesn't use computers or mobile phones and is associated with the daily express with a grain of salt.

[cpmman]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Nothing is beyond the NSA.