Re: Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer

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Author: Craig White
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To: storkus, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:57 -0700, wrote:
> Subject says it all. According to the article they hand out these USB
> keys with a bunch of stuff on them that lets anyone bypass all security
> on a windows computer. How long do you think it'll be before the
> contents of these keys ends up world wide? Another reason not to run
> winblows!
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/29/1441215.shtml
>

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there's been linux tools to do this for years...Microsoft just sees this
as a marketing opportunity to sell more product. The thing that this
suggests is that there is a back door...

by the way, unless you go to extreme measures to encrypt...Linux
security doesn't exist if you have the computer in your possession
either.

Craig

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