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UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« on: 16 February 2006, 10:40 »
UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows

 
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[0]REBloomfield writes "The BBC is reporting that the British Government
is working with Microsoft in order to [1]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."

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/15/131222

Heh. Sounds scary.

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #1 on: 16 February 2006, 10:44 »
Is this even legal? Jones?
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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #2 on: 16 February 2006, 10:45 »
FBI had a backdoor in Windows 98.

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #3 on: 16 February 2006, 15:34 »
Get the HDD get a blowtorch
... torch the HDD problem solved :D

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #4 on: 16 February 2006, 16:21 »
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FBI had a backdoor in Windows 98.

Yes, I think it was press F8 when it said "Starting Windows 98. . ."
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Seriously, I can't remember Windows 98 having encryption - the shitty old FAT32 filesystem didn't support it.
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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #5 on: 16 February 2006, 19:29 »
i know a very powerful encryption :)
when the data is transfered in binary 1/0
just have a gadget to make every 1 into 0 and the other way around:)
it will give a hell of a pain to some one else to read the hdd :P

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #6 on: 16 February 2006, 19:39 »
If MS were working for the consumer they should stop the backdoor with their anti-spyware products.
But yea it won't ever happen.

I wonder could anyone else make use of the backdoor?
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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #7 on: 16 February 2006, 20:28 »
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i know a very powerful encryption :)
when the data is transfered in binary 1/0
just have a gadget to make every 1 into 0 and the other way around:)
it will give a hell of a pain to some one else to read the hdd :P

So you mean just applying the NOT logical operator to every byte of data on the disk? That's a peice of piss to crack.
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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #8 on: 16 February 2006, 21:13 »
No need for the Brits to work with Microsoft to decrypt - just wait four days after the official release of Vista - someone will have figured it out by then, for free.

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #9 on: 16 February 2006, 21:16 »
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FBI had a backdoor in Windows 98.

If you want my opinion I think the FBI and CIA have a backdoor in every Window$ version ... why would they decide to take the backdoor out of Window$ after 98 ?

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #10 on: 16 February 2006, 21:46 »
[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]

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #11 on: 16 February 2006, 22:03 »
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 ...
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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #12 on: 17 February 2006, 01:48 »
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.

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #13 on: 17 February 2006, 12:33 »
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FBI had a backdoor in Windows 98.

That must have sucked for them, but hey at least it wasn't Windows ME. :nothappy:

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Re: UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows
« Reply #14 on: 17 February 2006, 21:00 »
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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