Thread: Electronics Sophisticated malware discovered after 7 years, likely created by a nation-state
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Old 03-27-2014, 08:33 AM   #20
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I also don't understand why/how the NSA controls whether privately developed software has backdoors, etc. I doubt Microsoft etc. would be very receptive to the NSA approaching them to do that.
The government has all kinds of handshake agreements in this arena. Microsoft is as complicit as any company.

One of the few that doesn't cooperate is Google (largely because they have world domination goals of their own that they don't want to share) and the government straight up went after them.
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