US Home Security Bureau participated in Win7 development and was questioned to put back the door

Last week, a senior official of the US National Security Agency admitted to participating in the development of Windows7 after testifying in Congress, the outside world raised the question of whether Windows 7 has a "back door", but Microsoft Recently, this news was categorically denied. A Microsoft spokesperson said: "Microsoft has not, and will not leave a back door in Windows in the future."

US National Security Agency ("NSA") information security master management Richard Schaeffer (Richard Schaeffer) In a testimony before the US Senate on Tuesday, during the development of Windows 7, NSA worked with developers to ensure the security of Windows 7. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Privacy Protection Agency's Electronic Privacy Information Center, questioned NSA's involvement in operating system development. "NSA has a dual mission: cybersecurity and intelligence gathering." Rothenberg mentioned whether the NSA would pressure companies such as Microsoft to require backdoors in the software code to enable the NSA to track users and collect user communications data. He said that this is obviously a worrying issue, and it is difficult for major software companies to reject the NSA's requirements because the federal government is their important customer.

Microsoft denied the existence of Windows 7 backdoors and clarified the NSA's participation in Windows 7 development. The Microsoft spokesperson said, "NSA mainly discussed with us the Security Compliance Management Toolkit. The problem." Microsoft released the Windows 7 version of the Security Compliance Management Toolkit last month. The Security Compliance Management Toolkit provides a range of security settings and the tools you need to deploy these settings for businesses, government agencies, and other large organizations.

Microsoft categorically denied that the back door of Windows 7 did not surprise security researchers. Roger Thompson, chief research officer of anti-virus software company AVG Technologies, said yesterday, "I don't think NSA and Microsoft will deliberately leave a back door in Windows 7, because once they are discovered, their reputation will be greatly affected. "Gartner analyst John Pescatore said today that "this concern has been exaggerated. The NSA has partnerships with companies such as Microsoft and Cisco in terms of security configuration standards."

Rothenberger said "The key to the problem is that NSA is not the right organization to promote computer security in the private sector, and end users will be at risk. Clipper encryption is an example." Clipper is an encryption standard first proposed by NSA in 1993, allowing law enforcement agencies. Access data encrypted with this standard. Clipper caused an uproar in the industry and was eventually abandoned.