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How NSA access was built into Windows



Duncan Campbell

Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.

A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access
codes prepared by the US
National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access
system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use,
except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes
close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software
giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help information"

trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software
systems had been deliberately crippled.

The first discovery of the new NSA access
system was made two years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren. But
it was only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access
system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.

Computer security specialists have been aware for two years that unusual
features are contained inside a standard Windows software "driver"
used for security and encryption functions. The driver, called ADVAPI.DLL,
enables and controls a range of security functions. If you use Windows, you
will find it in the C:\Windows\system directory of your computer.

ADVAPI.DLL works closely with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but will only run
crypographic functions that the US
governments allows Microsoft to export. That information is bad enough news,
from a European point of view. Now, it turns out that ADVAPI will run special
programmes inserted and controlled by NSA. As yet, no-one knows what these
programmes are, or what they do.

Dr Nicko van Someren reported at last year's Crypto 98 conference that he had
disassembled the ADVADPI driver. He found it contained two different keys. One
was used by Microsoft to control the cryptographic functions enabled in
Windows, in compliance with US
export regulations. But the reason for building in a second key, or who owned

Dato: 29-03-2007 23:58:28
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Nej nej.... Jeg er ikke neewbe så jeg bliver ikke nervøs - kender til de fleste cases på det område - jeg faldt bare over artiklen da jeg søgte efter noget andet .

Pointer er bare, at det er ret tankevækkende, at der findes en organisation i denne verden (NSA) som har adgang til det hele - med andre ord så kontrollerer de verdensstørte bot net - stort set alle verdens millioner af computere og servere hvis de har lyst og de har adgang til alt - når dette nu er sagt og sat i perspektiv  så giver det rum  for en nogen tanker hvilket gjorde, at jeg synes det kunne være intersseressant at poste den.