Microsoft: 'No Backdoors in Vista'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

...he said. "Just use the holes in the front door."

I kid, I kid. :-)

Via C|Net News:

[snip]

Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has 
stressed.

In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor 
access to the operating system. A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication to gain access to a computer 
without to the PC user knowing.

But Microsoft has now quelled the suggestion that law enforcement might get such access.

"Microsoft has not and will not put "backdoors" into Windows," a company representative said in a statement sent via 
e-mail.

[snip]

More:
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-6046016.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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