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Originally posted by Thodeph
Evidently, big brother is real, and information privacy has become an outright utopia. Makes you look at the US vs. Windows court case in a different light (government blackmail for OS control).
What I wonder is... what is the psychology behind the need to spy on the world.
Maybe it's stuff for another thread, but what makes the US intel community so scared of loosing control? Is it a lack of confidence in humanity? No self-confidence? Limitless selfhisness? Scared-#ness? Xenophobism? What?
Originally posted by TruthMagnet
leafer,
True - but no reason to give away the farm, eh?
Plus there are many good techniques for bobytrapping your HD's in case of an intrusion attempt.
(in such a way as to thouroughly destroy the data without harming anyone or anything else)
Do you konw of any good tutorials on how to write your own HD encryption scheme?
Any reason you couldn't just modify an existing open source encryption product?
I'm afraid I am somewhat ignorant about this security aspect.
Originally posted by Shoktek
"DoD requirements", most likely meaning that they have their own access key built right into the registry, as they have done in previous windows operating systems. It's not really anything new or surprising, just a good reason to switch to linux or OSX.
Originally posted by Shoktek
You can do a search, but this has come up before that the NSA has built in registry keys...not that that means anything specific in itself, but shows that Microsoft and the NSA willingly cooperate, therefore it could easily be assumed that they have a built-in back door, or something they could use to get into the files, trace a computer online back to the person who registered, or any number of things.