__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Saturday 13 January 2007 20:00 \__
How NSA access was built into Windows
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| 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.
|
| [...]
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| The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years
| ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren. But it was only a
| few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access
| system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.
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Addendum:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990903S0014
NSA Builds Security Access Into Windows
"A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has shown that special access
codes for use by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been secretly
built into all versions of the Windows operating system."
