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Microsoft Sells Out to NSA... again!

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Submitted by rkamens on Mon, 2007-12-17 22:05.

Our favourite software vendor, Microsoft, is at it again: selling away their customer's privacy and trust to government organizations. They've had a rich history of this, and just a recent story on Slashdot shows that the random number generator in the most recent Windows Vista service pack includes a algorithm known to contain NSA backdoors. This is extremely dangerous to anybody using Microsoft products because many programs use these random numbers to secure data and even encrypt it. See http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/12/17/1754257.shtml.

In the past, Microsoft has cooperated with the NSA. In fact, Microsoft "consulted" the NSA on Vista in order to "make it more secure". Does that means backdoors? It sure as hell looks like it. See http://www.privacy.org/archives/001908.html
http://www.cio.com/article/28077/NSA_Microsoft_Worked_Together_on_Window...

French Intelligence has also claimed that US Secret Service agents worked inside Microsoft, exploiting their position to insert backdoors into software used by millions worldwide. See http://cryptome.org/nsa-ms-spy.htm

Microsoft also implemented the NSA public encryption key in every system before Windows 2000. See http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html

So before you go to the store and get that shiny new laptop, consider asking the retailer to not put Windows on there because not doing so could end up being a serious mistake. Do you entrust your security to US Intelligence and everybody else who might also know what they know? I sure wouldn't.

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