[Am-info] How NSA Access Was Built Into Windows

[Gene Gaines]

Mark,

Thanks for sending along the "How NSA Access Was Built Into Windows"
article.

This info dates back to 1999 and 2000, for example it is relevant
to these Windows versions from 95 to 2000 and NT.  I do not recall
seeing any new info on this subject since mid-2000.  And this
Microsoft "back door" stuff was all mixed up with the issue of
exporting encryption and the legal limitations of encryption for
communications.  Rather a sorry mess.

Here are some references, which sort of dribble off to nothing
without proving or disproving anything:

http://seclists.org/lists/politech/1999/Sep/0009.html

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5263/1.html

http://hoaxinfo.com/nsacode.htm

http://www.cw.com.hk/News/n990906001.htm

Also, you will recall that Microsoft has made it source code
available to some foreign governments, that presumably would
be looking for such back-door stuff.

Any more, I don't know.

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 7:18:17 AM, Mark wrote:

> Not sure how old this article is, or if its been discussed already, but
> its certainly an eye opener.

> Mark

> http://www.totse.com/en/politics/national_security_agency/hownsaaccesswa168922.html

> "How NSA Access Was Built Into Windows
> by Mortose-Mortland

> 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). ..."




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