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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.
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?
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