Originally posted by birdie
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Government and intelligence agencies including corporation related to national security, energy, etc. have specific contracts and legal bindings with Microsoft and for those clients Microsoft allows under NDA full security audits and specific patching and even source code requests for auditing. Also each government have specific security normative Microsoft have to abide if they want those huge contracts (don't ask me what is exactly different tho outside encryption algorithms but i know China Russia and the US have specific government editions of Windows).
Also note that at least the US government and Russia(i do assume China and everyone else does the same) uses hardware with specific security modifications like custom TPM2 chips and off the civilian market bio-metric scanners and validated CPU microcode (Well Russia and China use their own hardware but Intel also have agreements with them for this stuff)
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"Windows 10 is the most secure version of Windows ever, and we’re humbled that governments around the world and now the Chinese government has a version of Windows created specifically for it. We are committed to work tirelessly to meet their needs."
I don't have any secret of the universe at hand (i keep those on hard paper, old school baby) but i don't have enough money to handle been hacked and getting my bank account cleaned neither i think i would like to have my source code from work appearing on Github or have someone monitoring my PC to know at which hours i'm at home so he can kidnap me(quite a common criminal strategy here in South America), etc.
Also presumption of innocence does not make you innocent by default, but assume innocence until the evidence produce a result to either side and like in software money can make a huge difference in the outcome too.
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