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Tortanick
01-11-2007, 02:38 PM
The NSA seems to be pitching in with Windows Vista, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801352.html) this is not the first time the elusive Men in Black pitched in to make an OS more secure, they famously donated SELinux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinux) to the public back in 2000.

In addition unamed other international agencys have been working with Microsoft, the question is that, unlike Linux where the source code can be scrutanised by any paranoid programmer with free time Windows Vista is closed source. Is there a back door?