Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 4, Informative) 178
And who says they build their binaries from those sources? The backdoors are probably kept in a separate branch and merged with the release branch at build time...
This, exactly. Now if Microsoft allowed governments to build their own binaries from the source they had just finished reviewing, there might be some reassurance that this isn't just a smoke-and-mirrors act. Then again, the toolchain might be compromised. Somehow I don't think MS will allow governments to have access to the toolchain sources as well. And even if they did, I suspect most governments don't have the resources to conduct such a comprehensive review.