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I really doubt the fact that NSA have direct backdoor in windows. A lot of countries will treat it as casus belli.
by venomsnake 13y ago
I really doubt the fact that NSA have direct backdoor in windows. A lot of countries will treat it as casus belli.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> I really doubt the fact that NSA have direct backdoor in windows. A lot of countries will treat it as casus belli. Against the US? I doubt it. Countries sometimes fail to treat actual armed intrusions without local consent by the US as casus belli because of the imbalance in military power, and you want me to believe that there are "a lot" of countries that will treat a backdoor in Windows as an excuse for war?
- tptacek 13y agoI doubt that NSA has a Microsoft-complicit backdoor in Windows, but would be amazed to find out that they didn't have its functional equivalent. For any given mainstream OS, assume NSA can own it up at will.
- venomsnake 13y agoI am absolutely sure they can enter almost anything not behind solid air gap.
- samstave 13y agoDoesn't that contradict your previous post?
- georgemcbay 13y agoNot the way I read it. The previous post seems to be suggesting the NSA doesn't have some backdoor into Windows that Microsoft put there for them explicitly, while the followup suggests that even without such an explicit backdoor, one should assume the NSA can take control of just about any system with a network connection (which is probably not explicitly true, but is true enough that you should just assume it). The second suggestion being they (the NSA) have a (likely lengthy) list of exploits found in common OSes (and/or firmware or CPU microcode) that they have never divulged and that they have discovered like any external security research would have (albeit one with a very large budget and a very strong incentive to find such control vectors).
- samstave 13y agoAh - yes that makes good sense. I prefer to assume that both are true.