Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:57 -0700, storkus at storkus.com 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