>The idea of a backdoor into Windows has been batted about for many years (note the original date of the story you linked to). My guess here is that BenFrank.net picked it up to promote their conspiracy theories.

Well if jet fighters and other armaments that are sold to "friendly" countries have built-in circuitry/code to be able to be disabled by American military if necessary, I've gotta believe that by now Microsoft has been pressured into having "back doors" for "security purposes" for the U.S. government.

Even if a (U.S.) government exhibits an extremely high degree of concern regarding citizens' privacy, security (spy) agencies have zealots who press for such things regardless and know how to disguise them to obtain presidential sanction for them.

Google censors for China. Yahoo (apparently) exposes dissidents to Chinese authorities. Why would Microsoft in the U.S. be any different when it comes to government pressure and the desire to continue to make buckets of $$$?



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>>I found this story on an intentional OS backdoor that Microsoft embedded for NSA wire taps:
>>http://benfrank.net/blog/2006/03/01/microsoft_nsa_backdoor/
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>>Is this what SP 2 was all about. Now they say it's for the "WAR ON TERROR", and I say what a great way to have the government drop a monopoly law suit.
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>>We saw Tom Delay use DHS to track down his political rivals. Could not this "back door" also be a tool for corporate espionage? Did Microsoft receive a court order from the FISA court before this function was embedded?
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>>What's up Microsoft? Have you gone the way of ATT? What kind of hit will pension funds holding MS stock take once this story goes mainstream?