Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3267

Larry Qualig

To Erik: MS doens't have to want to do it. Someone else that wants it in there will.

This is also linked to the problem of voting machines in that there is no verification of real votes vs. ballot stuffing. Do we know for sure that the voting machines do not have a back door?

What makes plasible denial work so easy is that the voting curve can be made to look like the winner only won by a scant margin, while in reality they lost by a scant margin.

That part is fairly true. What the normal everyday worker doesn't realize is how prevalent industrial espionage is. All it takes is one plant (an insurgent) to link in the necessary code in some library without anyone knowing it. A good question here is how well does MicroSoft screen their new hires?

There was a Canadian scientist that found what he thought to be a back door, and confronted MS about it, where MS had no comment.

Seeing that windows is the dominant operating system throughout the world, our own government would find it so much easier to monitor traffic thru a back door, and a lot cheaper, than using on the ground agents to gather the same information. The same holds true for competing companies looking to gain advantage over its compebreastor.

-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?