Re: Proof That the NSA Puts Trapdoors in Windows

[Maverick <Sun@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Q. wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>
> > How NSA access was built into Windows
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | 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 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.
> > `----
> >
> > http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
> >
> > With Windows, the user does not own the operating system (just a license
> > to use it). Moreover, the US Government is free to access the system
> > whenever it desires to do so.
> >
> >
> > Related:
> >
> > Data Protection Commissioner criticizes search of private PCs online
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | "In the case of a search via the Internet a police officer covertly,
> > | without the person knowing about it, accesses a person's computer."
> > | During such an operation he or she might copy data and obtain all
> > | kinds of personal documents; the police officer was acting as a "state
> > | hacker," so to speak. Mr. Schaar observed. "Such an approach is in
> > | conflict with the legal obligation to protect the core of
> > | individuals' privacy," Mr. Schaar stated emphatically.
> > `----
> >
> > http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82529/from/rss09
>
>
> The only "proof" here is that you're simply an idiot. Note to Roy
> Schestowitz: You've posted this same dishonest bullshit several times now. 
>
> Your link is to an article from the 1990's which has been categorically
> debunked several times already. Here's one from cryptologist Bruce
> Schneider that basically makes this dofus look almost as stupid as you. He
> shot down this theory a few months after it was first released.
>
> http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html

What?  That lump?  Does he know everything going on inside M$?
I highly doubt it.  It makes perfect sense for NSA to have backdoors in 
XP or any other version of windows.  It makes their job a lot easier in 
spying on foreign nationals in other countries.  What part about 
industrial espionage do you not understand??