How NSA access was built into Windows

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 19 03:13:36 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:35 -0800, Les wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:30 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
> snip
> > Anti-malware companies, which make their large profits from the infestations
> > and insecurities of Windows, have a huge say in what Microsoft can do with
> > their OS. Unfortunately for such a companies as Microsoft and others, this
> > profit is apparently worth more to them then consumer satisfaction and good
> > design principles.
> > -- 
> snip
> 
> Can you post a source for this assertion?  I find it highly unlikely
> that Microsoft even talks to these folks other than to give them the
> same access to Redmond that any other Windows Certified developer has.


I've been in this since '88 and I agree with you.


> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> 


LX
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