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

[Gadi Evron]

Bahh.

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> Via Scoop.co.nz (props, Pogo Was Right).
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> [snip]
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> 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]
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> More:
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0710/S00260.htm
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> - - ferg
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