UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Maybe if you find some open-source encryption software it will probably not have a back door ... or you can check the code yourself and see

[Aloone_Jonez]

It is possible to encrypt something without having a backdoor, in fact it's reasonably simple,

I don't know why companies just don't do it. I made a very simple encryption program in QBasic once,it just asked for a password and added each letter in the pass word togeather, then made a hash key by setting the random number seed to that value then adding each byte of the file to the next random number plus a byte value of a charicter in the password (a different one each time). Bingo the file just looks like random data and there's no way of decrypting it without the password and I'm no genius.

[MacX]

uk could just use windows and find their own backdoors... just use it and ull see whole thing is a backdoor

[Pathos]

If there is a backdoor then anyone can crack it...

it may be difficult but its always possible.

If a large business wants to get data out of a hard drive there will probably be a company in china or india in a couple of months that will do it for them for a respectable fee :/

if a business wants encryption they want secure encryption not encryption from people who aren't friends of microsoft...

who would trust microsoft not to put a back door in anyway?

[Jack2000]

:] yup
design your own open source fire wall
make a telnet
listening port to listen for a password
and only when one is present then out side connections are allowed
else only you can control it

[RaZoR1394]

         No Backdoor in Vista


          mytrip wrote to mention a C|Net article stating that Vista will not have a security backdoor after all. From the article: "'The suggestion is that we are working with governments to create a back door so that they can always access BitLocker-encrypted data,' Niels Ferguson, a developer and cryptographer at Microsoft, wrote Thursday on a corporate blog. 'Over my dead body,' he wrote in his post titled Back-door nonsense."

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[Lead Head]

Thank you for that information.

[Aloone_Jonez]

I should bloodywell think so - a back door would've been a stupid idea.

[Orethrius]

Yes, nobody would EVER expect Microsoft to deny such a deplorable practice.
Then again, there's something to be said for "plausible deniability."

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Man, that guy Niels Ferguson's got guts ... Over my dead body ... he better watch out that Ballmer doesn't Fucking Kill

[inane]

The only reason I run 2k is for games and the day game companies stop supporting DX9 is the day I stop buying new games... the ones I have will keep me busy for the better part of five years until PSxx comes out. That means I'm NEVER using Vista, so I couldn't give a shit less about their file system or it's encryption.

Besides, I don't use any illegal software and I don't have any sensitive documents stored in my Windows partitions. :thumbup: