Microsoft Opens Source Code to Russian Secret Service

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via ZDNet UK.

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Russian publication Vedomosti reported on Wednesday that Microsoft had also
given the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) access to Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server
source code, with hopes of improving Microsoft sales to the Russian state.

The agreement will allow state bodies to study the source code and develop
cryptography for the Microsoft products through the Science-Technical
Centre 'Atlas', a government body controlled by the Ministry of
Communications and Press, according to Vedomosti.

Microsoft Russia president Nikolai Pryanishnikov told Vedomosti that
employees of Atlas and the FSB will be able to share conclusions about
Microsoft products.

The agreement is an extension to a deal Microsoft struck with the Russian
government in 2002 to share source code for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and
Windows Server 2000, said Vedomosti.

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More:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security/2010/07/08/microsoft-opens-source-code
- -to-russian-secret-service-40089481/

- - ferg

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