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Showing Original Post only (View all)Wake Up Already America!!! NSA Built Back Door In ALL Windows Software by 1999---Long BEFORE 9/11 [View all]
We have repeatedly pointed out that widespread spying on Americans began prior to 9/11.
NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999
Posted on June 7, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog
Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11
Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:
A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA help information trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.
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A third key?!
But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even Microsofts top crypto programmers were astonished to learn that the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI development at Microsoft was stunned to learn of these discoveries, by outsiders. The latest discovery by Dr van Someren is based on advanced search methods which test and report on the entropy of programming code.
Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the respective product managers.
Researchers are divided about whether the NSA key could be intended to let US government users of Windows run classified cryptosystems on their machines or whether it is intended to open up anyones and everyones Windows computer to intelligence gathering techniques deployed by NSAs burgeoning corps of information warriors.
According to Fernandez 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 onwards.
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Wake Up Already America!!! NSA Built Back Door In ALL Windows Software by 1999---Long BEFORE 9/11 [View all]
kpete
Jun 2013
OP
Even with one back in the day since so few had any idea how to configure a hardware firewall,
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2013
#53
A key doesn't allow other people to alter your OS, it allows your OS to run other software
Recursion
Jun 2013
#44
You don't "...load unauthorized security services..." without files of some sort.
randome
Jun 2013
#3
Take it a step further with the upcoming XBox One with its Kinect camera/microphone
DJ13
Jun 2013
#6
Then they have no excuse for sitting idle and accepting a stolen election.
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2013
#15
Suprise, suprise! Ever wonder how all those updates (like java and adobe etc.) get into
xtraxritical
Jun 2013
#17
Yes, the polite programs "ask" do you think they must? You Inet connection is wide open.
xtraxritical
Jun 2013
#57
It's been inexcusable for a long time. Glad people are finally paying attention to it.
villager
Jun 2013
#26
And the NSA will happily use that intentional that back-door in windows............
wandy
Jun 2013
#39
And that is why US is so easily hacked by China et al.. We opened the door with privatizers!
CarmanK
Jun 2013
#40
I have suspected for years that my computer is following outside directions at times.
kestrel91316
Jun 2013
#49