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NSA has total access via Microsoft Windows
- Mithrandir 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY See also: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicrosoftCryptoAPI https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicro... http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/09/21577 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/09/21577 Basically, this has been known about for >14 years and it's probably nothing to worry about.
- urlwolf 13y agoThis is the most scary news I've read in the past week. Makes Stallman's 'The road to Tycho' a conservative, unimaginative piece on the power of governments.
- fuzzix 13y agoIt is wnd.com, a lot of it comes right from their imagination. See other comments re: NSAKEY, Schneier's is probably the best summary as usual.
- mikevm 13y agohttp://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html
- drivebyacct2 13y agoThis is a terribly written, horribly sourced, mash up of information that has been known for some time. >Access to Windows source code is supposed to be highly compartmentalized, actually making such actions easier because many of the people working on the software wouldn’t see the access. Uhm, okay.