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Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor
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| 03/03/2006
| By Joris Evers
Posted on 03/04/2006 6:22:54 AM PST by Panerai
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posted on
03/04/2006 6:22:59 AM PST
by
Panerai
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
03/04/2006 6:24:26 AM PST
by
jdm
To: Panerai
Yeah, right. I'm sure that'll happen.
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posted on
03/04/2006 6:26:34 AM PST
by
Terpfen
(72-25: The Democrats mounted a failibuster!)
To: Panerai
"Besides, they wouldn't find anybody on this team willing to implement and test the back door." unless they granted more options, of course.
To: Panerai
I wasn't worried about it until Microsoft assured us that it wasn't going to happen.
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posted on
03/04/2006 6:27:17 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: Panerai
"Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP, is slated to be available by year's end." Gee--I guess that's about the time I'll finally get around to upgrading to XP.
To: Panerai
Niels Ferguson, a developer and cryptographer at Microsoft, wrote Thursday on a corporate blog. "Over my dead body," As if that's some type of giant 'obstacle'...
To: ShadowAce; N3WBI3
To: Panerai
They don't need to add a back door because there will already be several included in the initial release!
To: Panerai
I miss Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
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posted on
03/04/2006 6:43:34 AM PST
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: mkjessup
To: Panerai
Hackers willl have one in about a week.
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posted on
03/04/2006 6:57:25 AM PST
by
Vinnie
To: Panerai
Anyone want to bet how long it will be before they cave in to China's demand for a "back door"?
To: Panerai
"Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," a company representative said in a statement sent via e-mail. Nope, they will just use a frontdoor, sidedoor, trapdoor, window ...
To: Panerai
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posted on
03/04/2006 7:10:28 AM PST
by
null and void
(I nominate Sept 11th: "National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval". - Mr. Rational, paraphrased)
To: Codeograph
Nope, they will just use a frontdoor, sidedoor, trapdoor, window ... ...porthole, tunnel, worm hole, conduit, passage, gaping hole...
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posted on
03/04/2006 7:14:09 AM PST
by
null and void
(I nominate Sept 11th: "National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval". - Mr. Rational, paraphrased)
To: Panerai
To: mkjessup
"I miss Windows 3.11 for Workgroups."
Oh, not me. It was OK for its time, but that time has passed.
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posted on
03/04/2006 7:14:59 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: null and void
...hatch, gateway, arch...
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posted on
03/04/2006 7:15:25 AM PST
by
null and void
(I nominate Sept 11th: "National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval". - Mr. Rational, paraphrased)
To: Panerai
"Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," That's like the feds saying they're not going to add a Mexican border crossing in order to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.
Windows is a security sieve. The government just has to know about the exploits before the general public does. In Microsloth's case, since they are refuse to voluntarily publicize flaws and are slow to fix them, that window of opportunity is quite large indeed.
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