Back Doors

Story: Microsoft reveals source code to hit back at LinuxTotal Replies: 3
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Void_Main

Sep 21, 2004
5:38 PM EDT
"The launch coincides with suspicion from European governments that the inner code of some Microsoft products could give US authorities back-door access to their systems."

Uh, Windows *is* a back door. Every script kiddie on the block will have access to your systems, not the US authorities. If you want security you won't run it. End of story.
phsolide

Sep 22, 2004
5:26 AM EDT
Once burned, twice shy, I always say. Need I mention "_NSAKEY"?

You don't really have to have a paranoid state of mind to wonder about Windows back doors, now do you? MSFT has put in back doors in the past. Whatever else it showed, the anti-trust trial demonstrated that MSFT has no real ethica compass.
Void_Main

Sep 22, 2004
8:40 AM EDT
Yes but you don't even have to search for hidden back doors when the front door is left wide open. You don't even need a special key to get in.
peragrin

Sep 22, 2004
8:46 AM EDT
Oh come on SP2, closed and locked the front door, and the back door.

of course it left the windows wide open, but hey nobody's perfect right?

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