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> Before Windows 10 (and later backports to 8), it wasn't. It has been since _NSAKEY shipped in Windows 95 OSR2's ADVAPI32 http://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman
by Lammy 5y ago
> Before Windows 10 (and later backports to 8), it wasn't.
It has been since _NSAKEY shipped in Windows 95 OSR2's ADVAPI32
http://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/kstorm.txt http://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/kstorm.txt
https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/advapi32/history/index.htm https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/advapi32...
- userbinator 5y agoNSAKEY has already been thoroughly debunked, and was only ever a suspected backdoor, not active spyware.
- TheRealDunkirk 5y agoIt's been exhaustively denied. However, given all we know about the CIA/NSA and their activities over the years (ECHELON, AT&T room 641a, intercepting and backdooring routers, PRISM, etc., et. al.), there is no amount of bloviating from Microsoft that will make me believe NSAKEY wasn't, and isn't, exactly what it looks like. In the end, you can't prove a negative, so all you can do is believe whatever you want to believe, informed by everything else we already know.