From: mea culpa (jerichoDIMENSIONAL.COM)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 13:59:50 CDT

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http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21577.html

MS Refutes Windows 'Spy Key'
by Steve Kettmann and James Glave
10:20 a.m. 3.Sep.99.PDT

Microsoft is vehemently denying allegations by a leading cryptographer
that its Windows platform contains a backdoor designed to give a US
intelligence agency access to personal computers.

Andrew Fernandes, chief scientist for security software company Cryptonym
in North Carolina, claimed on his Web site early Friday that the National
Security Agency may have access to the core security of most major Windows
operating systems.

"By adding the NSA's key, they have made it easier -- not easy, but easier
-- for the NSA to install security components on your computer without
your authorization or approval," Fernandes said.

But Microsoft denied that the NSA has anything to do with the key.

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