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As long as Microsoft tells NSA about the bugs they have in Windows before they start fixing them [1], that just constitutes the same thing as "backdoors", since
by salient 13y ago
As long as Microsoft tells NSA about the bugs they have in Windows before they start fixing them [1], that just constitutes the same thing as "backdoors", since with many of those bugs NSA can take full control of a machine.
So Microsoft doesn't need to "give NSA a backdoor". They just need to tell them about certain bugs before they fix them - and that's just as bad as giving them backdoors, since NSA can and will use them as such.
[1] - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-t...
- astrange 13y agoYou're describing a security disclosure program. Since anyone else could have (and often has) already found the attack, the point of this is to put the defenses up as early as possible. Surely real valuable attacks would be ones there's no planned security update for.
- pessimizer 13y ago>You're describing a security disclosure program. No, a security non-disclosure program. Disclosure is when you tell people. Telling a spy agency in no more "disclosure" than telling a Russian trojan dev.