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Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7
CWmike writes "Microsoft has denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. 'Microsoft has not and will not put "backdoors" into Windows,' a company spokeswoman said, reacting to a Computerworld story Wednesday. On Monday, Richard Schaeffer, the NSA's information assurance director, told the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security that the agency had partnered with the developer during the creation of Windows 7 'to enhance Microsoft's operating system security guide.' Thursday's categorical denial by Microsoft was accompanied by further explanation of exactly how the NSA participated in the making of Windows 7. 'The work being discussed here is purely in conjunction with our Security Compliance Management Toolkit,' said the spokeswoman. The company rolled out the Windows 7 version of the toolkit late last month, shortly after it officially launched the operating system."
Of course they built in a backdoor for their own personal uses. Is anyone stupid enough to imagine otherwise? Consider the recent CIA purchase of http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring-firm/ In-Q-Tel. Or the well-known fact that the CIA has its fingers all over Facebook. Do you suckers believe for one instant that everything you do and write isn't being scribbled into some Internal Security goon's harddrive somewhere? I have a friend who worked for Juniper, and he personally knew that AT&T was buying their equipment to route all its traffic through NSA spook territory before hitting the rest of the web. East Germany represent!
Every day the United States comes closer and closer to becoming the USSR. A disaster in Afghanistan, monitoring its citizens without a warrant, attacking Christianity, Islam, and other religions, use of secret prisons and torture, central economic planning, the list goes on and on and on and on.
And still the rabid conformists, http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090624/full/news.2009.593.html murderers of civilization, take out their Two Minutes Hate on the messenger.
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It's kinda hard for Beck to have fun with this controversy when Microsoft jumps the gun and denies it first, huh? Well, I'm still wondering why Ballmer refuses to deny he raped and threw chairs at that girl in 1990....
Remember when Microsoft said "Windows Genuine Advantage isn't spyware"? Just because it does the same things spyware does, doesn't mean it's spyware, if you re-define spyware to mean "software that spies on you and phones home, written by someone other than Microsoft". So when their spokesperson says "Microsoft did not put a backdoor into Windows 7" this should be read as "Microsoft did not put remote root-level access code written by someone other than Microsoft into Windows 7".
Why would Microsoft build a back door into Win7, when the front door is so wide open?
Because Big Gay Al, Mr. Slave and Tom Cruise don't like using the front door?
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We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Considering that Microsoft is a company that does it's damndest to avoid any form of taxation, and has even threatened economic repercussions against the American government to get it's way in the past, I'd genuinely he hurt if I found out that the NSA's giving out free technical help to these people.
If it was for some nefarious purpose, well then, they're just doing their jobs.
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