NSA Is Giving Microsoft Some Help On Windows 7 Security

NPR ^ | 11/18/09 | Kevin Whitelaw

[Terpfen]

Marketing ploy.

If Microsoft wanted to really understand how to enhance system security while allowing users relative freedom, they’d take a good hard look at UNIX. But that doesn’t generate headlines, does it?

[K-oneTexas]

Right. Just helped Micro$oft increase the price.

[Outlaw Woman]

The National Security Agency has been working with Microsoft Corp...

What OS do MACs use?

[mysterio]

In other words, NSA convinced Microsoft to put a big backdoor in so that there will be access to any machine or encryption formed on any machine.

I'd be surprised if that wasn't part of the deal.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Can you say "back door?"

[TexasRepublic]

Windows is the environment that most viruses, worms and other exploits are written for. They don’t find anything familiar to attach to when encountering a different operating system. Therefore, my dedicated Internet browsing computer uses Linux. My Windows computers are kept off the Internet.

[listenhillary]

NSA back door no doubt.

Could cause a surge of Mac buying by terrorists.

[hosepipe]

The NSA helping microsoft?...
I wonder who is being helped...

Linux is becoming a better and better option daily..
For a host of reasons..

[astyanax]

It’s the NSA!
They don’t NEED a back door.
If they want in, you can’t stop them...

[ThomasThomas]

Why do you assume that Apple is not working with NSA too?

[editor-surveyor]

Cyber attack is not what the NSA is in this for; they want a guaranteed back door into every computer.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What OS do MACs use?

Here's Apple's Open Group brand certificate, which entitles Apple to use the UNIX brand. . . There are UNIX pretenders, and there is the real thing. Mac users, realize that qualifying for UNIX is no small feat, especially for an open source, BSD-based OS.

Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification

[FromLori]

You are the gold watcher correct?

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/kirby/2009/1009.html

[FromLori]

I don’t know sorry.

[BallyBill]

I'm waiting for my copy right now. If no one hears from me after tomorrow, you'll know Big Brother got me.

Don't worry though, I won't talk even under water boarding.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Stunningly, if accurate [and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is not accurate]...

He misspoke, right?

He meant to say "in my mind that this IS accurate," right?

[hoosierham]

I'd bet there is a back door in every modern OS,even the big linux distros are so huge who could search through all the code except a full time hacker with no life?

Certainly microsoft,Apple,Sun, and the rest aren't going to tell the federal gestapo NO.

It is long past time all Americans were educated about the Alien and Sedition Acts of the early 1800s,the abuses of habeas corpus,etc. by Lincoln, the Woodrow Wilson demands that any criticism of the government be treason in order to force the U.S. into the European war of 1914 in which we had no need to join.

Power hungry dictators always silence dissent.

[listenhillary]

Good point..

[ASA Vet]

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