UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows 598
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."
Suggestion (Score:3, Funny)
IE (Score:4, Funny)
Backdoor action? (Score:3, Funny)
Eh? (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Paper documentation (Score:0, Funny)
Non-issue, functional MRI can catch liars. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What is the point of filesystem encryption? (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's stored on the PostIt note on the monitor.
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Backdoor code (Score:5, Funny)
Up-Up-Dn-Dn-Lt-Rt-Lt-Rt-A-B-A-B-Ctrl-Enter
Re:If you are caught having... (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, that idea is SOOOOO 20 years ago.
Get with the times man!
Re:China & PGP (Score:3, Funny)
At the time I got it, it was fairly geek-chic, but now it's just outdated
Re:Backdoor code (Score:4, Funny)
-Coach-
Re:Backdoor code (Score:4, Funny)
i'm old too...
Well..... (Score:3, Funny)
Makes a change, Tony Blair's been making his back door available to Bill Gates since he came to power.
King George's Backdoor code (Score:3, Funny)
If president Jr. get to pick it, I'll bet it is 1-2-3-4-5.
Re:King George's Backdoor code (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If you are caught having... (Score:3, Funny)