[privacy] NSA may be Reading Windows Software in your Computer?

[rms at computerbytesman.com]

Every computer that I've owned since 1999 has contained backdoors that 
allow the NSA full read/write access to the hard drives of the computers. 
These backdoors are known as insecure "ActiveX" controls.  They come with
bundled software preinstalled on the computers by the computer makers. 
ISPs also like to open my computers to external attack by installing buggy
ActiveX controls with their "access" software.

Richard

P.S.  The NSAKEY controversy is old news of course.  I wonder why the
author is recycling it.


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> Via Scoop.co.nz (props, Pogo Was Right).
>
> [snip]
>
> Sooner or later, a country that spies on its neighbors will turn on its
> own
> people, violating their privacy, stealing their liberties.
>
> President Bush's grab for unchecked eavesdropping powers is the
> culmination
> of what the National Security Agency(NSA) has spent forty years doing unto
> others.
>
> And if you're upset by the idea of NSA tapping your phone, be advised NSA
> likely can also read your Windows software to access your computer.
>
> European investigative reporter Duncan Campbell claimed NSA had arranged
> with Microsoft to insert special "keys" in Windows software starting with
> versions from 95-OSR2 onwards.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00260.htm
>
> - - ferg
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