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Trustworthy Software For The NSA?
Janus Daniels writes "There's a new story from the New York Times, as reprinted at CNET News, about security concerns for Government agencies buying software from overseas. According to the article, a whistle-blower who helped sell software to the National Security Agency says that much of the development work is subcontracted to China, raising serious national security risks. He also discovered in the sales-support database... the names of more than 30 [identity-classified] employees of the United States National Security Agency...'"
The same people who collect everything I do online?
Forgive me, but I hope they rot in hell with their compromised software.
Aren't the U.S. still at war with Germany and the rest of fascist Europe?
(It's good to know Americans are in no way paranoid...)
As someone who performs security code reviews on outsourced code I can say that this happens all the time. When everyone was outsourcing code to india for y2k work we found back doors all over the place. Everyone does it. It's a form of R&D. Give coutry X project review technical capabilities of coutry X people.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them
The US is in the business of giving (some of) its secrets to anyone who might be a "useful" enemy in the future. The US LET the Chinese steal those nuclear secrets because the US WANTS the Chinese to be a credible nuclear threat in ten or fifteen years - just about the same time that the Chinese will be a credible ECONOMIC threat to the US economy - thereby justifying threats and war and political tinkering at home.
This is the standard government ploy - "You do everything we tell you to and give us everything you own, and we'll protect you from the bad people on the other side of the border and within our borders - and if there aren't any bad people, we'll make some."
The state is an extortion and protection racket, nothing more. ALL states are, without exception, throughout human history.
Therefore, it is no surprise that secrets get "leaked". Just as it is no surprise that weapons get sold to Iraq, Iran, nuclear reactors to North Korea by Rumsfeld's company, and so on...
But you monkeys just don't get it, do you? There's no sucker like an American sucker...
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