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China Prepares To Examine MS Windows Code

Posted by timothy on from the and-yours-too-if-you'd-like dept.

Stargoat writes "CNet reports that China is looking into MS's source code for Windows. They are looking both to increase security as well as perhaps create a Chinese version of Linux. Or are they perhaps concerned with rumors of deliberate holes left in the software for the NSA to exploit?" Here's an earlier Slashdot post about the Microsoft-China agreement.

2 of 468 comments (clear)

  1. Incease Security? (Typo) by eX-fly · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I believe microsoft doesn't need any help in that respect!

  2. Re:fuck.. by whereiswaldo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No really, what a total joke. Would you trust someone who showed you what they *claim* is the source code, and then provided you with *their* binaries? If you don't compile it yourself, how do you really know? And even then, that's not an absolute guarantee that what you see is what you get (eg. if someone tampered with the compiler).