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11/18/2002 Entry: "NSA BACKDOOR IN EVERY MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM"


How NSA access was built into Windows

Duncan Campbell

Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.

A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access
codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into
Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows
operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its
predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier
this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help
information" trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other
software systems had been deliberately crippled.



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Why rely on facts, when it is much more convenient to suspect.
-Oscar





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Why rely on facts, when it is much more convenient to suspect.
-Oscar