Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Uh, no. Wrong. It's not a fine line at all. We're *way* over it.
I would think that only a Supreme Court judge could definitively say
what is legal under the Constitution since the Constitution defines them
to be such. And so far nobody is bringing such a case before them. Or
perhaps they have already ruled on something like this.
The smart criminals are already past all this. They have the money to
burn to do smart things.
Indeed.
As long as you're not using Windows. We have educated everybody around
us about the NSA Key backdoors, right?
The only thing ever turned up in that incident was the existence of a
registry key which contained the string NSA in the name. I'm googling
and I can't even find the value of the key itself. They also never came
up with anything that really tied it to the NSA other than the name.
Nobody has found any code that referred to the key.
Everyone knows I don't like Microsoft and wouldn't trust them for a
second but I also don't like making such claims based on such flimsy
information. I would say you are probably right but for supposedly
scientific-minded people we can't just take it on our lack of faith in
MS and the NSA.
The original report from "Cryptonym" seems to 404 now but I did find:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message421165/pg4
which says:
"Two weeks ago, a US security company came up with conclusive evidence
that the second key belongs to NSA."
But I can't find where they present any evidence that makes it conclusive.
And only the NSA has that key, right? None of the bad guys know how to
use it, right?
If this were real I would be surprised that more foreign countries have
not moved off of Windows.
don't need the backdoor key and B) Anyone who actually figured it out
kept very, very quiet.
B) worries me the most.
I agree. We shouldn't be worried about the Chinese hacking our systems
via the Internet. We should be worried about them taking advantage of
something like this and conducting industrial espionage on a grand
scale. Why don't Qualcomm or any of the local companies who supposedly
strongly protect their "IP" worry about this?
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