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NSA Worked With Microsoft On Windows 7

18 November 2009 | 12:54 pm EST | No Comments
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Steve Ballmer

“”Working in partnership with Microsoft and [the Department of Defense], NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of system threats and vulnerabilities to enhance Microsoft’s operating system security guide without constraining the user’s ability to perform their everyday tasks,” Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s Information Assurance Director, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a statement prepared for a hearing held in Washington. “All thsi was done in coordination with the product release, not months or years later in the product cycle.”" Link

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