RE: [TCLUG:8088] Can anyone verify the contents of this email?

["Schoenhofen, Kelly" <KSchoenhofen@Carlson.com>]

*This is hilarious. 

Known Facts: 
There are two keys built into every build of MS OS's after Win95 OSR2,
including the latest builds of Win2K.
The first key is owned by MS, and is for MS/MS software to do stuff to your
system (reg, etc.) that needs Admin privs without being granted Admin privs
in the normal way.
The second key has been presumed to be owned by MS for the last two years,
when they were discovered in the ADVAPI dll. Service Pack 5 for NT 4.0
updates that file, but the MS programmers failed to strip the debugging
symbols from the keys before shipping SP5. The second key is called
"NSAKEY".
While MS admits to the second key, it will not elaborate on it in anyway, as
of this moment.
The builds of Win2k have three keys built into it - the MS key, the known
NSA key, and a third unidentified key.

Speculation:
IT'S 1984 FIFTEEN YEARS LATE, MAN! 

Who knows :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Johnson [mailto:john1536@tc.umn.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 1:45 PM
To: TCLUG; SCALUG
Subject: [TCLUG:8088] Can anyone verify the contents of this email?


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August 31, 1999 - WINSA - In what's sure to become some of the
hottest news on the planet, we've just posted a detailed report
that reveals at staggering revelation: MS OPERATING SYSTEMS APPEAR
TO HAVE A BACK DOOR!. And according to the discoverer, the keys to
this door are held by both MS and the National Security Agency
(NSA.) This is very distrurbing news folks.

In his report, Andrew Fernandez airs out exactly what he found,
how he found it, and how to remove the risk from your NT and
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