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UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
worker201:
[OFFTOPIC]If even 1/8 of the things we all hear about the CIA and FBI are true, then those are some seriously fucked up organizations, and allowing them to continue operating is a moral oversight on our part.[/OFFTOPIC]
H_TeXMeX_H:
If only people woke up ... I hate to just say things without acting, but really there's not much one can do. Who cares about protestors ... not the government, and if no one sees them protest then there is no use. The system is an overwhelming force ... as I think about what you can do to change it in some small way, to push it in the right direction, I realise that ...
--- Quote --- Resistence is futile. You will be assimilated.
--- End quote ---
davidnix71:
Is there any third party encryption software that doesn't have a backdoor? Just use that.
A backdoor implies a universal key or else the keys' reference number must be stored somewhere on the hd so it the key itself can be retrieved from a dll.
adiment:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---FBI had a backdoor in Windows 98.
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That must have sucked for them, but hey at least it wasn't Windows ME. :nothappy:
Calum:
i used to have a job where we supported PCs with windows on to users in a firm with something like 17000 employees. part of the standard image which everybody gets on their PC is a certain commercial encryption product. it encrypts your hard drive and then the user sets the key to get into the hard drive, and without that key nobody can get onto your hard drive, let alone log in as you, theoretically. in actual fact the encryption product has a backdoor key. i know what it is, and so do other people. the fact that i no longer work there doesn't stop me knowing the backdoor key, although i have agreed on paper somewhere not to disclose it. to me, this is pathetic! it defeats the entire purpose of encryption. it would be like having two doors in your house. on one, you install a shitload of locks, alarm devices, bolts, reinforcements and so on, to stop anybody trying to break in, but with the other door you don't bother, reasoning that anybody coming to your house will be trying to come in through the front door. In reality then, all the potential invader needs to do to get in through the back door is figure out how to get over your garden fence.
metaphorically speaking.
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