Government spooks helped Microsoft build Vista Since Vista is in the wild now…
THE USA GOVERNMENT’S cryptologic organisation, the National Security Agency, has admitted that it is behind some of the security changes to Microsoft’s operating system Vista.
According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as ‘No such Agency’ has admitted making ‘unspecified contributions’ to Vista.
Tony Sager, the NSA’s chief of vulnerability analysis and operations group, told the Post that it was the agency’s intention to help everyone these days.
Dude,
A:this is like two months old.
B:So? Who the fuck cares?
C: They either maked it harder for hackers to get in, or themselves.
Eitherway someone is getteing in. Total waste of a post.
What happened to actually interesting stuff being shown on the front page!?
I’ve read that NSA’s software will identify petulant trolls on message boards.
You have been duly noted number 2.
This does come under the heading. “You just heard about this”. This was in the news months ago. And really does this surprize anyone. My ISP had everybody change there IP settings last year when I ask why they first said it was a upgrade but further quary revealed that the changes were goverment related. Probebly all kinds of backdoors in vista. It whould not be hard to check what you had been doing while they are seeing if you have a legel copy of windows.
I guess I spend too much time on NekkidCheerLeaders.com cuz
I missed this.
Glad to get this info – not that it is surprising.
Reason #83 not to buy Vista.
But it seems you’re kind of stuck when you buy a new box – they’ve switched over everything.
Build-yer-own notebook doesn’t sound too good though.
#1 and #3 – Google News search shows first article on jan 8, 2007 which makes it 0.75 “months” ago.
From the Inquirer article on Jan 9. with the same subject: “Microsoft is not the only one to tap the spooks. Apple, with its Mac OSX operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what it thought of their products.”
Sorry, all. I mean #1 and #4.
Just another reason to switch to Linux.
Actaully Mac OS X also was tested by the NSA too.
Yes, I too heard about this before. BUT I wasn’t given a chance then to comment on it.
I wasn’t planning on upgrading to Vista before and this only reinforces my plan.
I d/l Ubuntu on Sunday. I’m still fine tuning it but it doesn’t look bad so far.
Refusing an Upgrade? What are you trying to hide??? 😀
Whats sad is I actually know people who don’t care if the Gov. is watching “everything” they do as well as think, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide.”
Sad.
Russian hackers will exploit those backdoors Thus forcing Vista patches that will eventually close those intentional security holes.
Ever heard of SELinux? It stands for Security Enhanced Linux. It’s not a distribution but rather a set of settings (for example, disallow unencrypted telnet, rlogin, rsh) that can be applied to any Linux distribution. I know it’s an install option for Red Hat Enterprise. Guess who developed it? Yep, NSA. NSA helps OS makers harden their OS to stop hackers. I really don’t buy the conspiracy theories about back doors, but to be honest, there is no way to know that there is no back door in Vista, or XP, or OS X. But you can see all the code in the Linux kernel, so it should be safer. Nonetheless, I put the conspiracy theories about this right up there with the lunacy about the Apollo moon missions. I mean c’mon, everyone knows Hollywood didn’t do it; the aliens did, right?
To paraphrase Darth Vader, “I find your lack of paranoia disturbing.”
#3, “who…does…number…2…work…for?”
If I had something to hide, I sure wouldn’t bitch here about the NSA putting back doors into Vista. In fact, I’m running Linux most of the time now so I don’t care what NSA does with Vista. Really. So I’m not complaining about it. Honest.
#17 – I am not a number, I am a free man!
#20
Yer unique, just like everybody else.
Windows Vista is SPYWARE, I guess.