I have no evidence of this, but Edward Snowden did. Anyway, I've been a software developer for decades and when I see the constant security patches from Microsoft on a regular basis, I get the impression that they are just plugging security holes once they become public, and only because they became public. I know from experience that once you debug a code module of all its bugs, it eventually becomes bug-free. Sure, it is true that new code introduces the possibility of new bugs, but the Windows kernel doesn't change that often and should be rock solid by now. Also, with a company worth billions of billions, and all the sophisticated testing frameworks these days, there really isn't any excuse to even have one bug. But, what we see is a constant influx of security patches every month for years on end. This just makes no sense to me. And given the fact that they've already been outed as being enthusiastic partners with the spooks, I get the idea that they probably monitor the dark web for whenever their known backdoors become discovered by the hackers. When they do, they simply inform the spooks during their weekly meetings that they will be patching the backdoor, but not to worry, there are many new backdoors that will be released during the next "security update."
As I think of it, I wouldn't doubt that some backdoors that are discovered by hackers are actually just leaked directly from the spooks themselves to make a quick buck.
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