{"id":42180,"date":"2013-06-15T18:47:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/microsoft-waits-to-fix-your-software-bugs-so-the-nsa-can-use-them-first\/42180\/"},"modified":"2013-06-15T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T18:08:03","slug":"microsoft-waits-to-fix-your-software-bugs-so-the-nsa-can-use-them-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/microsoft-waits-to-fix-your-software-bugs-so-the-nsa-can-use-them-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Waits to Fix Your Software Bugs So the NSA Can Use Them First"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rebecca Greenfield<\/strong>
\nThe Atlantic Wire <\/a>
\nJune 15, 2013<\/p>\n

In a move as fiendishly clever as it is galling, Microsoft tells the U.S. government about bugs in its notoriously buggy<\/a> software before it fixes them so that intelligence agencies can use the vulnerabilities for the purposes of cyberspying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes,\u201d\u00a0sources tell Bloomberg\u2019s Michael Riley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But still, the biggest software company on Earth is holding off on its blue-screen-of-death problems to turn them into real-life spy features, an impressive feat that will no doubt frustrate consumers: We are, after all, waiting for our computers to work so the nation\u2019s spy services \u2013 almost certainly including the National Security Agency, given its massive espionage umbrella<\/a> \u2013 can take advantage of the problems with them first. their mistakes first.<\/p>\n

That’s just one of the many ways the U.S. government and tech companies work together in\u00a0fiendish\u00a0ways to more easily allow for complex surveillance, according to\u00a0Bloomberg’s in-depth report:<\/p>\n