<story><title>US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot; IBM referred to a 2014 statement saying that the company does not provide &amp;quot;software source code or encryption keys to the NSA or any other government agency for the purpose of accessing client data.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;A spokesperson ... did not comment further on whether source code had been handed over to a government agency for any other reason. &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m glad the author pressed them further (&amp;quot;for any other reason&amp;quot;).  So many times we see such statements like this from companies but nobody bothers to ask the obvious (to me) follow-up question.</text></comment>
<story><title>US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-pushed-tech-firms-to-hand-over-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>The source code alone is less problem than the private keys.&lt;p&gt;If the agencies have private keys of the creators of your OS, who then signed the &amp;quot;signed updates&amp;quot; you&amp;#x27;ve got?&lt;p&gt;Example, recently from Microsoft:&lt;p&gt;In their forums: &amp;quot;Is Update KB3103709 Fake?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;answers.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;protect&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;protect_other-protect_start&amp;#x2F;is-update-kb3103709-fake&amp;#x2F;c9fea314-1469-4d6f-b22f-d1fa0c11c503?auth=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;answers.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;protect&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;protect_oth...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;On their site: &amp;quot;  Try searching for what you need This page doesn’t exist.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-gb&amp;#x2F;kb&amp;#x2F;3103709&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-gb&amp;#x2F;kb&amp;#x2F;3103709&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>