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M$ is in your backdoor
« on: April 29, 2008, 03:45:55 PM »
The borg have done it again.  Microsoft has now given police investigators the ability to access your data from a USB thumb drive regardless of the security in place.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004379751_msftlaw29.html

Yeah, thanks for that.  Hmmm, there is a emulator for Windoze on *nix, right?
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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2008, 11:54:14 PM »
No Doubt!!!       Microsoft:crash:
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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2008, 10:50:47 AM »
I had heard that this had already found it's way onto the web.  I'll find a copy for us if I can.
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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2008, 08:10:18 PM »
this was actually my big fear was that something like that can't be contained, and it will find it's way into teh wild and make it easy for anybody to compromise systems.
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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2008, 04:18:56 AM »
The technology can be used wrongfully too easy!!!    :swear:
« Last Edit: May 01, 2008, 10:11:31 AM by opiesilver »
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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2008, 01:15:09 AM »
The fact that M$ did this is not a shock to me at all. However, The fact that it has happened has given me more confirmation that we are becoming more a police state. The fact that a company would be willing to do this makes me a little angry, and in the name of what?
Heck, I'd rather see a company close it's doors in the name of securing the privacy of personal data. If I could have total support of all the applications I use in Windows in Linux I would totally switch over. While it may not be a perfect solution to this nonsense it is better than nothing. 

One solution to this problem is I could remove USB and scratch out the traces on the M/B that run to where the Ports would be...

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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2008, 04:33:16 AM »
It seems to me that there was a company that threw itself on the grenade for the sake of security.  For the life of me I cannot remember who though.  Opie, do you remember who it was?
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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2008, 02:48:13 PM »
Not a clue.... :embarassed:
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Re: M$ is in your backdoor
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2008, 07:22:37 PM »
I know that TorrentSpy.com did that last summer. I'm not sure if anyone else has. 
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