Microsoft is up with plans of opening ‘Transparency Centers’ all around the world that would offer government customers an increased ability to review its source code and get confirmation of the fact that there are no back doors.
At the 50th Munich Security Conference, held last week on Friday, Matt Thomlinson, Microsoft’s Vice President for security said the transparency centres “…will offer government customers an increased ability to review our source code” and advance “our long-standing program that provides government customers with the ability to review our source code, reassure themselves of its integrity and confirm there are no back doors.”
Information about how many transparency centres will be created, or where they will be, has not yet been disclosed. However, Thomlinson said “it is my hope to open the Brussels Transparency Center by the end of this year”.
Another idea suggested by Thomlinson, which attracted everybody’s attention at the conference was formation of a “G20 + 20” group – 20 governments and 20 global information and communications technology firms – to draft a set of principles for acceptable behavior in cyberspace”.
Creation of such a group will help to rebuild customers’ trust in technology that has been badly disturbed by recent revelations, said Thomlinson.
[Source: Microsoft Technet]
