http://www.lineone.net/express/00/02/23/news/n2920windows-d.html How US spies opened Windows on the world BY NIC FLEMING AND JACK GEE COMPUTER documents written in Microsoft Windows and sent over the Internet can be intercepted and read by American spies, it was claimed yesterday. Bill Gates's empire has been accused of putting a hidden code in the best-selling word processing program to give US intelligence services access to foreign military and business secrets. The computer giant denied any such arrangement, and experts expressed scepticism at the claim. A report by the French defence ministry claimed that "back-door technology" had been included in Windows software after a deal between Microsoft and the US National Security Agency. The report said: "The security agency has got Microsoft to hire a number of its own agents to ensure that Windows can be used to burglarise these messages. The Americans are not just spying on us but on all their allies, including Britain, as well as countries like China and Russia whom they regard as potential foes." <SNIP> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/23/196l-022300-idx.html A Peek at the Not-So-Secret World of the CIA James Bond It Isn't, Students Discover By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 23, 2000; Page B03 True, the in-house photographer had trouble getting a group shot because of all the necessarily shy employees ducking around corners. And there were direct phone lines to the White House and the Pentagon, and the wall had digital clocks showing the time in Baghdad and Tehran. But where, the students wondered, were all the swashbuckling spies with ballpoint pen grenades and computer eyeglasses and satellite wristwatches? "I'm as close to James Bond as you're going to see," said Jim Pavitt, who as deputy director for operations is one of the nation's top spymasters. "Look at me, guys, is there a difference?" he said. "Why are you laughing?" -- ---------------------------- Kaos Keraunos Kybernetos -------------------- + ^ + Sunder "Only someone completely distrustful of /|\ \|/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] all government would be opposed to what /\|/\ <--*--> -------------------- we are doing with surveillance cameras" \/|\/ /|\ You're on the air. -- NYC Police Commish H. Safir. \|/ + v + Say 'Hi' to Echelon "Privacy is an 'antisocial act'" - The FedZ. ---------------------------- http://www.sunder.net ----------------------- I love the smell of Malathion in the morning, it smells like brain cancer.
