Bush Orders NSA to Secure Microsoft Windows XP
By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com
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(2005-12-30) — In a recently-leaked secret memo, written in October 2005, President George Bush authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to “employ all of its tools and skills” to enhance the security of Microsoft Windows XP.
Existence of the highly-classified covert program, revealed in a frontpage New York Times story, could not be verified yesterday as Microsoft announced it had discovered yet another serious flaw in the code of its flagship XP operating system.
A White House spokesman today would not confirm or deny existence of the secret NSA program, dubbed Operation Patchwork Quilt, but reiterated that “the president believes history will judge him on how well he protected the American people from all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Microsoft has not yet issued a patch for the latest vulnerability — a hole that hackers can exploit to infect a PC with spyware, adware or a malicious stomach virus.
About 90 percent of Americans use the Windows operating system and other Microsoft products — despite the free availability of reliable, easy-to-use alternative systems, office productivity suites and internet browsers — because they want to do their part to help Microsoft Philanthropist Bill Gates fight tropical diseases in foreign lands.
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another serious flaw: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901456.html
easy-to-use: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
office: http://www.openoffice.org/
browsers: http://www.mozilla.com
Bill Gates: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1142278,00.html
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