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Cryptome Reveals How MSFT Gives the FBI & NSA Back Doors to Crack Encryption

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 05 2014, @04:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the insecure-by-design dept.

gewg_ writes:

Roy Schestowitz at TechRights reports

The FBI does not even pretend not to be pursuing back doors; quite the contrary! It demands them and now insists on legislation that would make them mandatory. The same goes for the NSA, Microsoft's very special partner. Anyone who still thinks that back doors in encryption are within the realm of "conspiracy theory" must not have paid attention.

[...]Some months ago we showed that a former Microsoft engineer working on Windows BitLocker confirmed that the US government asks Microsoft for back doors and now we have more details on how this is done, courtesy of cryptology enthusiasts in Cryptome.

[...]When Microsoft speaks about security, it usually means "national security", i.e. the ability of the state to break security of software. It's about interception, not security. When Microsoft speaks about 'secure boot' it speaks about an antifeature in UEFI that enables the state to remotely brick computers, too.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06 2014, @12:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06 2014, @12:53AM (#113409)

    Would you really turn down an NSA job on principles and ideology?

    Yes. Anyone with any morals, ethics, or honor would either decline the job or immediately turn whistleblower since working at the NSA, like all Federal-level positions, requires taking an Oath of Office, an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Being a domestic enemy of the Constitution yourself means violating that oath.