http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111809-nsa-helped-with-windows-7.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2009-11-19The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress.
That's awesome! And I'm so happy you agree!
"When NSA offers to help the private sector on computer security, the obvious concern is that it will also build in (
) backdoors () that enables tracking users and intercepting user communications," Rotenberg said in an e-mail. "And private sector firms are reluctant to oppose these 'suggestions' since the US government is also their biggest customer and opposition to the NSA could mean to loss of sales." 
Just keep the source closed and no one will ever know
But Microsoft's enemies will keep us safely and promptly informed if anything nefarious exists in their compiled code, or my name ain't Nathan Arizona! Hold up.... I think there's a problem here
Who's gonna blow the whistle and take credit for
illegally reverse engineering the compiled code of a company with deep enough pockets to run you out of business? So there really
is no protection from these things in closed source code - except for our blind faith in the corporations licensing their software to us
On a less justifiably paranoid note, even if this is "altruistic" it's still preferential treatment for the closed source community, or just Microsoft in this case. But what's up with the ESL generation? "
and opposition to the NSA could mean to loss of sales." Am I just a grammar snob or should some literate glance at these articles prior to publishing them?
