Re: US secret agents work at Microsoft: French intelligence

["[iso-8859-1] J Thorel" <youwillneedme@yahoo.com>]

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This news broke Friday at 3:00 pm GMT in French.
Later in the day (6:00 GMT) Agence France Presse
released another edition of this article, quoting
a DoD official, who said the report has not been
writen inside the DGSE, but from an independent
think-tank (institut des recherches stratégiques,
unkown to my sources). 

The content of the report quoted in the original
source (Intelligence Newsletter) is plainly
"conditional", where the author says "may" ou
"would" rather than "will", or "do". It reports
about all the allegations and rumors made during
recent years about Microsoft and IBM
collabiration with the NSA. It doesn't bring any
proof or new allegations that has not yet been
published. 

Update of the story (BUT the updated version of
the AFP wire is not published there):
http://cryptome.org/nsa-ms-spy.htm

jt
paris
lambda.eu.org

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> US secret agents work at Microsoft: French
> intelligence
>
http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/0002/19/A27800-2000Feb19.shtml
> 
> Source: AFP | Published: Saturday February 19,
> 7:44 AM
> 
> PARIS, Feb 18 - A French intelligence report
> today accused US secret
> agents of working with computer giant Microsoft
> to develop software
> allowing Washington to spy on communications
> around the world.
> 
> The report, drawn up by the Strategic Affairs
> Delegation (DAS), the
> intelligence arm of the French Defence
> Ministry, was quoted in today's
> edition of the news-letter Le Monde du
> Renseignement (Intelligence World).
> 
> Written by a senior officer at the DAS, the
> report claims agents from the
> National Security Agency (NSA) helped install
> secret programmes on
> Microsoft software, currently in use in 90 per
> cent of computers.
> 
> According to the report there was a 'strong
> suspicion' of a lack of
> security fed by insistent rumours about the
> existence of spy programs on
> Microsoft, and by the presence of NSA personnel
> in Bill Gates' development
> teams.
> 
> The NSA protects communications for the US
> government, and also intercepts
> electronic messages for the Defence Department
> and other US intelligence
> agencies, the newsletter said.
> 
> According to the report, 'it would seem that
> the creation of Microsoft was
> largely supported, not least financially, by
> the NSA, and that IBM was
> made to accept the (Microsoft) MS-DOS operating
> system by the same
> administration.'
> 
> The report claimed the Pentagon was Microsoft's
> biggest client in the
> world.
> 
> 
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