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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."

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  1. Maybe this will help the russian spies. by elucido · · Score: 1, Troll

    It will help with their IT troubles now that they will be given the complete sourcecode to Windows 7. This just goes to show me that Microsoft is evil. Stick to Open Source software. If It isn't open for everyone then something is wrong with that.

  2. Re:FSB is not "the" successor to the KGB by yossarianuk · · Score: 1, Troll

    Using Windows is a bigger threat to US security than giving the Russian's the source code.

  3. Yo! by notknown86 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yo America!

    What value has your freedom when your freedoms are extended more to your past and present enemies than to yourselves? Which one of your domestic agencies gets the same privileges? Let alone (holy fuck!) the actual domestic *users* of the software?

    Excuse me when I quietly say *pffft* next time I hear another hypocritical cunt spout off about freedom with no consideration for the responsibility in preserving those freedoms. Truth is, most care more for comfort. Not a problem, but it bothers me when it is nested in a halo of moral rectitude.