| ▲ | TacticalCoder 2 hours ago | |
> And now backdoors! "now"? Shall we have a discussion about the excuse Microsoft gave as to why keys they claimed, back then, were "secondary keys" belonging to Microsoft, were called ..._NSAKEY when a version of Windows NT shipped, by mistake, with debug symbols on? One time, just freaking one time, a version of Windows shipped with debug symbols on and, by chance, there had to be cryptographic keys named "NSAKEY" in there. Yeah. Now that people constantly turning a blind eye on the wrongdoings of the state are of course going to say that it's totally normal and just repeat the, carefully crafted, excuses from Microsoft from back, that it was totally not a backdoor etc. | ||
| ▲ | masfuerte an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
The bit I never understood in this story is the accidental leak of the debug symbols. Microsoft publishes them anyway. They are not a secret. Back in the day, the symbols shipped on the CD, and they published updated symbol packages for service packs. Nowadays they are published on the web and their debuggers download the symbols automatically. | ||
| ▲ | StayTrue an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Had to look this up myself. | ||