Privacy Groups Dismiss Microsoft NSA Denial is a TechWeb story with more follow-up on the startling allegations that recently sprung up of a backdoor built into the Windows OSes for the National Security Agency (story) that Microsoft called "inaccurate and unfounded" in response (story). The new article offers the opinion of Caspar Bowden, the director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), who disagrees, saying "Microsoft's argument is inconsistent with its operating procedure."