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UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
REBloomfield writes "The BBC is reporting that the British Government is working with Microsoft in order to gain backdoor access to hard drives encrypted by the forthcoming Windows Vista file system. Professor Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, urged the Government to contact Microsoft over fears that evidence could be lost by suspects claiming to have forgotten their encryption key."
They do a google search for "backdoor" and "windows", then just take their pick. Microsoft if nothing else, offers a variety of backdoors for your every need.
Internet Explorer will offer all the back door access they need
What good is encryption if your government can read it - before long half the criminals in the country know how to decrypt your files - especially they way the British Secret Service has been losing laptops lately....
Why don't they just use one of the hundreds of backdoors that everyone else uses? Seems to me M$ are already complying with this request several times over.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Blair would also like you to fax him a copy of everything you write on a paper in case you accidentlly-on-purpose shread that paper later on. Better start sending those faxes right away!
A suspect will not be able to get away with such a lie, because of advances in functional MRI.
No, it's stored on the PostIt note on the monitor.
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
The jokes really write themselves.
Seriously, though, I'd store inciminating stuff on something I could get rid of more easily than my hard disk.
You know what the secret code for the backdoor to encrypted data on a harddrive running Vista is gonna be, don't you?
Up-Up-Dn-Dn-Lt-Rt-Lt-Rt-A-B-A-B-Ctrl-Enter
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Oh wait, I forgot... civilized Western nations never commit torture upon their subjects.
Dude, that idea is SOOOOO 20 years ago.
Get with the times man!
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
I have a T-shirt around here somewhere that has the RSA encryption algorithm written in Perl in an easily OCR-able font, with a large barcode shown below it that encodes the same text. On the back, it says, "This Shirt is a Munition", and then goes on to list the federal regulations that restrict exporting the shirt.
;)
At the time I got it, it was fairly geek-chic, but now it's just outdated
"UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows"
Makes a change, Tony Blair's been making his back door available to Bill Gates since he came to power.
Hmmmmmm..... Deep fried and look like Squirrel.
You know what the secret code for the backdoor to encrypted data on a harddrive running Vista is gonna be, don't you?
If president Jr. get to pick it, I'll bet it is 1-2-3-4-5.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Oh, please. That's an easy one. You only need to watch one episode of 24 to know that kind of stuff happens all the time ;-)
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