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Microsoft Opens Source Code To KGB's Successor Agency
Jack Spine writes "Microsoft has struck a deal with the Russian government which will give the FSB, successor to the KGB, access to the source code for Windows 7, among other products. The agreement is an extension of Microsoft's Government Security Program, according to a source with links to the UK government."
Pffffffaaahahahaahaha.
Oh wait, you're serious.
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because if the russian government (or any government) had an interest in using the source code for purposes beyond internal security, they would go "wait, we promised microsoft we would only use this domestically"
do you believe that? what exactly do you think motivates a government's actions?: protect the nation, at all costs, in any way possible. one way is to make false promises to naive parties and then promptly renege on them. but you write:
"I don't see how this deal with Microsoft could possibly threaten the US or US interests, except possibly in a peripheral way."
are you fucking serious? how naive and deluded are you?
the source code will soon be in the hands of ultranationalist russian hackers with marching orders to fashion a weapon or reveal a weakness out of anything they can find in the code. these hackers will be quasi-independent: no way to trace their activities back to the government. like the perfectly timed cyber attacks on georgia in 2008 as russian tanks rolled over the mountains or the cyberattacks on estonia because of a fucking statue. officially, of course, nothing to do with the government. yeah, right
you're a naive fool
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Sounds like they've done pretty good for themselves. Their cover obviously has you fooled.
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