NSA has done
somethuing similar with computers. In September 1999, leading
European investigative reporter Duncan Campbell revealed that NSA HAD
ARRANGED WITH Microsoft to inser special “keys” into Windows
software. In all versions from 95-OSR2 onwards. An American computer
scientists, Andrew Fernandez of Cryptonyum in North Carolina, has
disassembled parts of the Windows instruction code and found the
smoking gun- Microsoft's developers had failed to remove the
debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it.
Inside the code were the labels for two keys. One was called “KEY”
The other was called “NSKEY” Fernandez presented his finding at a
conference ay which some Windows developers were also in attendance.
The developers did not deny that the NSA key was built into their
software, but they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it
had been put there without user's knowledge. Fernandez says that NSA
's “back door” in the world most commonly operateing system
makes it “orders of magnitude easier for the US government to
access your computer.”
In February 2000, it
was disclosed that the strategic Affairs Delegation (DAS), the
intelligence arm of the French Defense Ministry, had prepared a
report in 1999 which also asserted that NSA had helped to install
secret programs in Microsoft software. According with the DAS report,
“it would seem that the creation of Microsoft was largely
supported, not least financially, by the NSA, and that IBM was made
to accept the [Microsoft] MS-DOS operating system by the same
administration. “ The report stated that there had been a strong
suspicion of a lack of security fed by insistent rumours about the
existence of spy programmes on Microsoft , and by the ptesence of NSA
personnel in Bill Cates development teams” The Pentagon, said the
report, was Microsoft biggest client in the world.
From the book “ROGUE
STATE”, by William Blum