[Cryptography] GHCQ Penetration of Belgacom

[Alfie John]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, at 08:55 AM, David I. Emery wrote:
> 
> 	Can anyone hear give me a good reason not to believe that the
> NSA TAO folks (and probably their major contractors) don't have  access
> to more or less complete Windows source code and probably much of the
> internal documentation for it ?   I would assume this would be under a
> perfectly legal (if perhaps secret) agreement with Microsoft - but it
> would seem awfully likely that if they really needed it they could
> simply use their well developed dark arts to find a copy out there
> somewhere not so well protected and purloin it ...  after all they have
> tapped inter data center pipes for those companies and one presumes that
> finding copies of this sort of stuff when you have THAT kind of access
> isn't hard.

China has it, why wouldn't the NSA?

  http://news.cnet.com/China-to-view-Windows-code/2100-1007_3-990526.html

Alfie

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