Regardless of whether or not an actual backdoor exists and regardless of what it does (verifies whether or not illegal software is loaded or permits the NSA to enter your system) do you think that MS could afford to admit to this? There would be such a hue and cry for them to refund money on their software that they would sink from the lawyer's fees much less any funds they actually refunded.
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Regardless of whether or not an actual backdoor exists and regardless of what it does (verifies whether or not illegal software is loaded or permits the NSA to enter your system) do you think that MS could afford to admit to this? There would be such a hue and cry for them to refund money on their software that they would sink from the lawyer's fees much less any funds they actually refunded.