NSA MAY BE READING WINDOWS SOFTWARE IN YOUR COMPUTER

The French reported a “strong suspicion of a lack of security fed by insistent rumours about the existence of spy programmes on Microsoft, and by the presence of NSA personnel in Bill Gates’ development teams.” It noted the Pentagon was Microsoft’s biggest global client.

In the U.S., Andrew Fernandez, chief computer scientist with Cryptonym, of Morrisville, N.C., found Microsoft developers had failed to remove debugging symbols used to test his software before they released it.

Inside the code Fernandez found labels for two keys, dubbed “KEY” and NSAKEY”. Fernandez, though, termed it NSA’s “back door” into the world’s most widely used operation system. He said this makes it “orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer.” Microsoft called the report “completely false.”

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Privacy is een van de redenen waarom ik sinds kort overgestapt ben van Windows Vista naar de Linux distributie Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon.)

Mocht je ook van Vista af willen, maar nog niet zover zijn dat je helemaal zonder Windows kunt, zoals ik, begin dan met een XP/Ubuntu dualboot. En neem de tijd.