Forgot about Howard Schmidt already?
Maybe people have forgotten Howard Schmidt. An early Microsoft CISO. Before then he was a supervisory special agent and director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations Computer Forensic Lab and Computer Crime and Information Warfare Division. Before then, he was with the FBI.
How much would anyone want to bet that backdoors into Microsoft OS were put in place then? The guy was a government agent working at Microsoft. He then went to work at eBay. Then he went back to government work, being called back by Pres. Bush and served as the vice chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and a special advisor for cyberspace security for the White House.
Microsoft and the NSA & FBI have had ties lasting for that long.
But now that Snowden revealed for a fact what was before only (highly) suspected, Microsoft acts indignant. Sure. Whatever...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
