Microsoft Denies Windows 7 Has NSA Backdoor

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[citation][nom]LeJay[/nom]Yeah, that works perfectly... Except when the computer is turned on.[/citation]

Notes was the first widely adopted software product to use public key cryptography for client-server and server-server authentication and for encryption of data, and it remains the product with the largest installed base of PKI users. Until US laws regulating encryption were changed in 2000, Lotus was prohibited from exporting versions of Notes that supported symmetric encryption keys that were longer than 40 bits. In 1997, Lotus negotiated an agreement with the NSA that allowed export of a version that supported stronger keys with 64 bits, but 24 of the bits were encrypted with a special key and included in the message to provide a "workload reduction factor" for the NSA. The effect of this was that users of Notes outside of the US had stronger protection against private sector industrial espionage, but no additional protection against spying by the US government.[2] This implementation was not a secret - in fact it was widely announced - but with some justification many people did consider it to be a backdoor. Some governments objected to being put at a disadvantage to the NSA, and as a result Lotus continued to support the 40 bit version for export to those countries.

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For those who think our benign Government is all grace and good. You have no knowledge of history.

Nuclear Testing and the Downwinders

102 Chicagoans Ate Radioactive Fallout // All Reportedly Agreed to '60s Test. Chicago Sun-Times | January 5, 1994| Lynn Sweet |

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

Project Paperclip: Nazis in America

IBM (the maker of Lotus Notes) and the Holocaust

I could go on and on and on with lists of verifiable and well documented covert activities the US Government has played upon its citizenry. So naysayers, keep the head buried in the sand.
 
[citation][nom]osmosium[/nom]Well, yes, that is also true. But that takes time. NSA has a history of doing things like this. Look up "Lotus Notes".[/citation]

Apologies to LeJay, my previous post was in response to Lotus Notes. :)
 
Rather than the government chasing individuals, I was thinking more about the value of corporate piracy. I mean, if you can get into a competitor's network and see what they're up to, that could be worth billions, and from the cases of government people busted, it doesn't cost much to get them to help.
 
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Microsoft quickly responded to such concerns.

"Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," a company spokeswoman said to Computerworld.
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Heheheh, how much value has a statement like that?

Of course they deny it, regardless of whether the backdoor really exists or not. Duh!

 
I can't wait for Acer and NSA and the FBI to work together on building the next generation LCD monitors. The NSA will eventually develop pixel sized webcams that's imbedded into the screen and you'll wonder about that dead pixel. That's how they'll catch bad people!
 
[citation][nom]CloudNINE[/nom]I could go on and on and on with lists of verifiable and well documented covert activities the US Government has played upon its citizenry. So naysayers, keep the head buried in the sand.[/citation]

I am amazed that you would provide so many examples and not one of them had anything to do with the NSA. You might take a moment to check their charter. National surveillance is what they are supposed to be doing.
 
[citation][nom]El_Capitan[/nom]I want the government to have access to my e-mail, bank accounts, telephone conversations, and record on camera my every move.[/citation]
If they did, they'd be Google.
 
Of course Microsoft denies coding a backdoor into Windows (remember that one of the first things Bill Gates did with C Cubed long before Microsoft was hacking into networks).
Instead the NSA with sinister glee gladly coded the backdoors for Microsoft.
 
If it turns out that the two companies did arrange a backdoor for NSA, one could hire a good lawyer and sue the hell out of MS if not both guilty parties. That would be hilarious and serve both of them right.
 
[citation][nom]jerrspud[/nom]oh brother, this is way to paranoid. Up there with black helicopters[/citation]

Uh, most military helicopters are black. They do most of their covert ops at night... :)

But it makes for good conspiracy theory stories...I'm sure I'll be getting e-mails from my friends about it...lol
 
How NSA access was built into Windows

"A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help information" [local] trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled. "

read more: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html

Never say never!
 
"Microsoft Denies Windows 7 Has NSA Backdoor"

Microsoft response : Of course it doesn't have AN NSA backdoor

It's has MULTIPLE NSA backdoors 😛

If you are still not convinced : there's many other security leaks and vulnerabilities.

Just wait a few month
 
Wow, I wonder if anyone has pondered another good explanation. Almost all government computers are running Windows. Don't you think...you know in the interest of national security...for the NSA to use it's IMMENSE expertise to help improve system security?

I mean, even without a back door these guys are very likely to find a vulnerability if they really want to see what you are doing. Even if it's encrypted.
 
[citation][nom]omnimodis78[/nom]People should stop complaining and focus on the real issues currently affecting Americans (which I am not, btw). Cheers![/citation]
Like blind stupidity?

[citation][nom]gmcboot[/nom]Lastly, Linux is more likely a client for back doors than anything else. Ummmm open source. What keeps the NSA from having someone working for one the publishers to hack an back door into Linux. [/citation]
FAIL. This is an entirely possible situation, but if even a group of people add this backdoor in, hundreds of others will find it because it is... *drumroll* open source!

Whether the NSA have a backdoor into Windows or not is irrelevant. As someone already stated: if they want in, they'll get in. No security system is full-proof, especially not someone on a $40-80k salary who isn't investing in the kind of protection the NSA use for themselves.
 
AH HA! and you all laughed at me when I made that comment in the other article. We'll see who has the last laugh! :😛uts on tin foil hat::
 
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