RMS, in 2001, talked about a 1999 NSA backdoor in MS server software

21:45 and especially 22:10 onward ... it's sad almost in a storybook kind of way.

It sounds familiar to me, but I don't have a link.

Interesting speech, thanks for the link. It sounds like he is talking about things that are happening now!

There is a citation to Stallman's story on page 5 of this pdf.
https://irwinlaw.com/sites/default/files/attached/KP21%2001%20Stallman.pdf

Here is the link http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/03/windows.nsa/

This article from 1999 and is often cited in many similar-type stories.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html

Also, here's the email correspondence between Duncan Campbell and
Microsoft from the year 2000 about the "NSA key":

http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm

Andrew.