"For Windows Vista Security, Microsoft Called in Pros"
By Alec Klein and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 9, 2007; Page D01
The link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Snippets below the fold....
"Our intention is to help everyone with security," Tony W. Sager, the NSA's chief of vulnerability analysis and operations group, said yesterday.
Anybody think that might include backdoor entry to Vista?
"The Redmond, Wash., software maker declined to be specific about the contributions the NSA made to secure the Windows operating system."
No kidding....
"Microsoft also has sought the security expertise of other U.S. government and international entities, including NATO. "I cannot mention any of the other international agencies," said Donald R. Armstrong, senior program manager of Microsoft's government security program, citing the wishes of those agencies to remain anonymous."
"The NSA declined to comment on its security work with other software firms, but Sager said Microsoft is the only one "with this kind of relationship at this point where there's an acknowledgment publicly."
Just what we always wanted.... Uncle Sam playing "guardian"... ;)