Inergen is an inert gas fire suppression system that does exactly the same thing with a much smaller environmental footprint. The gas is generated with similar equipment, and then stored in bottles (similar to Halon et. al.) and then when a fire is detected, the room is flooded with said gas. The installed system is also much less expensive than the equipment.
I suppose that if this were Open Source, a backdoor like this would never have existed. It seems as though one of these deliberately placed "major mistakes" happens to Microsoft every few months. I suppose that shows to the quality of their engineers. I would also assert that this is not so suprising. After all there is one huge security hole that Microsoft will have a very hard time patching, it is a problem with every version of Microsoft Web Server, it is called Windows.
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Inergen is an inert gas fire suppression system that does exactly the same thing with a much smaller environmental footprint. The gas is generated with similar equipment, and then stored in bottles (similar to Halon et. al.) and then when a fire is detected, the room is flooded with said gas. The installed system is also much less expensive than the equipment.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inergen
I suppose that if this were Open Source, a backdoor like this would never have existed.
It seems as though one of these deliberately placed "major mistakes" happens to Microsoft every few months. I suppose that shows to the quality of their engineers.
I would also assert that this is not so suprising. After all there is one huge security hole that Microsoft will have a very hard time patching, it is a problem with every version of Microsoft Web Server, it is called Windows.