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Back in 2001/2002 I argued with friends that Microsoft must have made a deal with the government in its antitrust case [1]

Basically divulging or intentionally leaving holes or backdoors in the system accessible to the government in exchange for practically dropping their antitrust case.

[1]-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...



That's nice. That isn't what the article is about nor has there been any intentional holes or backdoors found in Windows.




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