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Microsoft Opens Source Code To KGB's Successor Agency

Posted by timothy on from the we'll-trade-for-american-spyware dept.

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."

2 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Available as a Torrent in 3... 2... 1... by thijsh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia Information Wants To Be Suppressed, but Code Still Wants To Be Wrong!

  2. In Soviet Russia... by Sentrion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Windows look out through you!