When I read this news, my long held desire to convert to Linux became a mandate. While you could argue even this isn’t definitive evidence of a backdoor in Windows, I don’t believe a corporation founded and run by Bill Gates deserves the benefit of the doubt, especially if it involves cooperation with the US government, especially the NSA.

True, but would Microsoft really be dumb enough to give this information out to so many agencies? It’s gotta leak at some point, and if there is any doubt as to the methods used to retrieve the data they will be in for a rude awakening.

The story was misreported and that is unfortunate. However, keep in mind that without being able to read the source code one can’t say if there are backdoors or not.

Exactly!

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When I read this news, my long held desire to convert to Linux became a mandate. While you could argue even this isn’t definitive evidence of a backdoor in Windows, I don’t believe a corporation founded and run by Bill Gates deserves the benefit of the doubt, especially if it involves cooperation with the US government, especially the NSA.

The worst thing about all this falsely reported news is the amount of people who will never see that the information was actually incorrect. It’d be nice if websites did a little more research before posting news.

I definitely agree with you. A lot of people will likely use this as another reason to hate Windows, which is pretty stupid since they weren’t given the right info in the first place.

That’s true, but it would be a little crazy of Microsoft to mass distribute it then. Cause you knew darn well that it will leak at some point.