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Subject: Re: Vista back Door - it's official Posted on: Sun, 4 May 2008 17:34:01 +0000 (UTC)

On Sun, 04 May 2008 18:06:54 +0100, Alec McKenzie wrote:

> Dead Paul wrote:
>
>> Microsoft Gives Police Keys To Unlock Vista Security
>> http://www.ngitech.org/microsoft-gives-police-keys-to-unlock-vista-security/42
>> 97/
>>
>> < >> as well as data stored in the computer.>>
>
> It seems you misunderstand. The device does not perform decryption: it
> saves information for later analysis elsewhere.

They say it can decrypt passwords so either the utility which does this
is a powerful cracking utility (first case) or it makes use of "inside
information" in which case it (Vista) could be described as back door'd
(second case). I neither know nor care which.

>
>> COFEE is a USB drive that allows law enforcement to run more than 150
>> commands on a live computer system and save the results on the portable
>> drive for later analysis. This preserves valuable information that could
>> be lost if the computer had to be shut down and transported to a
>> lab--files that are stored in active memory would otherwise be lost, for
>> example.

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