SAP admits - shock! - it sells to governments, denies that means backdoors

SAP is wrapped up in possibly the silliest conspiracy theorising The Register has seen yet, issuing an angry denial that having sold software to government agencies means it built backdoors into its products. Well – it's probably an angry denial, but it's phrased with the good manners of corporate PR. The kerfuffle began with …

[Stretch]

TBH SAP are so desperate to cover up the total failure that is HANA that they are pushing it heavily into every deal and discounting other products when you take it. So not surprising that all their deals are featuring it now, regardless of its actual use.

[JeffyPoooh]

NSA + SAP

Almost perfect.

All that's needed is a good dose of Symantec Norton Internet Security, and that'll be the end of that.

[Gordon 10]

Next up

The Grauniad + random MP abuses Oracle in Reading for having sold Spatial and Graph to GCHQ. (True according to the sales rep)

[PeterM42]

Don't worry

If the npower and Scottish Power experience is anything to go by, no one will be able to get information out of the system, anyway.

[Matt Bryant]

Hey, paranoid delusional crowd.....

Haven't you heard? The NSA uses electrcity! They must have backdoored that so all your electrical appliances are spying on you! And I hear they use phones, both landline and mobile. And Windows, and Linux, and probably the odd Mac too. Best you lot just stop using all forms of modern technology and go live in caves in the woods, you'll be safe then.