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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF
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To: Scrapps who wrote (19921)1/18/2000 5:33:00 PM
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Bill Gates - Secret Agent Man:

NSA Builds Security Access Into Windows

(09/03/99, 2:05 p.m. ET) By Duncan Campbell, TechWeb

A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has shown that special access codes for use by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been secretly built into all versions of the Windows operating system.
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No researchers have yet discovered a programming module which signs itself with the NSA key. Researchers are divided about whether it might be intended to let U.S. government users of Windows run classified cryptosystems on their machines or whether it is intended to open up anyone's and everyone's Windows computer to intelligence gathering techniques deployed by the NSA's burgeoning corps of "information warriors."

According to Fernandes of Cryptonym, the result of having the secret key inside your Windows operating system "is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system". The NSA key is contained inside all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onward.
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