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I remember when the "NSA" variable name was found in Windows source code that accidentally leaked out. Some people claimed that the NSA had backdoors into Windows and nearly everybody singed happily: "Conspiracy theorists".

I'm not so sure that nowadays with all this Stuxnet insight people would be so hard-pressed to label these people conspiracy theorists.

Also, no more Windows source code did leak out with all the comments and variable names in the clear etc.

One has to wonder how "open" Windows actually is to the NSA and if all these 0-days so commonly found are really honest mistakes or not...




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