UK Government Wants a Backdoor Into Windows

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Your Rights Online <http://yro.slashdot.org/> : UK Government Wants a
Backdoor Into Windows 

Posted by CmdrTaco <http://cmdrtaco.net/>  on Wednesday February 15,
@08:50AM
from the there-are-plenty-of-worms-available dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=201>  
REBloomfield <mailto:rebloomfield () gmail com>  writes "The BBC is reporting
that the British Government is working with Microsoft in order to gain
backdoor  <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm> access to
hard drives encrypted by the forthcoming Windows Vista file system.
Professor Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge
University, urged the Government to contact Microsoft over fears that
evidence could be lost by suspects claiming to have forgotten their
encryption key." 

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