Firstly mods, sorry if this is in the wrong forum or OT but I came across this and thought that everyone should know.

http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000059.htm

This is an extract from the article


A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help information"
Yuri.