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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Mar 2006 17:27 UTC, submitted by Tyr.

A Microsoft developer and cryptographer responded in his blog to a news story by the BBC about the problems strong encryption built into Vista might cause for law enforcement. "Over my dead body," he said, regarding the possibilty of including a law-enforced backdoor in Vista.

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RE[2]: Lame

by proforma on Mon 6th Mar 2006 03:35 UTC in reply to "RE: Lame"

Member since:
2005-08-27

>do you have any sort of clue ????
>linux is OPEN... people can look for backdoors

So if someone takes linux, adds a backdoor and sells it and doesn't give the full source away they can't add backdoors?

You are kidding right?

Open source software can have the same problems.

The main problem that I see is that trusting in open source just because it says open source is just stupid.

It's really a false security and that is the problem with it.

Why do you think we have the US government monitoring open source software as well as closed source.

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RE[3]: Lame

by archiesteel on Mon 6th Mar 2006 05:40 in reply to "RE[2]: Lame"

Member since:
2005-07-02

So if someone takes linux, adds a backdoor and sells it and doesn't give the full source away they can't add backdoors?

If someone does that they'll be sued for copyright infringement.

Seriously, you should learn more about open-source before criticizing it.

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RE[4]: Lame

by proforma on Tue 7th Mar 2006 05:18 in reply to "RE[3]: Lame"

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2005-08-27

>Seriously, you should learn more about open-source before criticizing it.

You should learn about life before understanding it.
If someone violates the GPL who is going to sue?

These are people without that much money.

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