__/ [ Ian Hilliard ] on Sunday 16 July 2006 19:26 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> I quoted the irrelevant/unsupportive bit. Look at the article. It is safe
>> to assume that the government is given a back door to one's encrypted
>> filesystem/s. Scoble said it's not true, but what do you know? He ditched
>> Microsoft.
>
> I'm sure the Russian Mafia already have the key for this back door and are
> just waiting for Vista to be widely used so they can start taking 0wn3rship
> of people's computers.
They already do that with XP (and potentially its adjacent
predecessor, Windows 2000). Let me find a recent incident
that I have in mind...
The first quick search brought up the following:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/173600331
It's not what I was looking for, but it alludes to the
conspiring folks. This so-called "Russian mob" (controlling
a vast network of zombies) recently was involved in the
incident that I had thought of. There was a tonnage of
E-mail being sent, as well as DDOS attacks. When a
particular victimised IT company retaliated, the head of the
Russian mob threatened to use larger botnets and made brutal
statements as though it was WWIII and his Windows boxes were
nuclear warheads.
It's quite repugnant how machines turn into useless,
spineless relics (no wonder users complain about speed).
This clogs up the network, requires more hardware, and
raises the bill for all of us. Actually, I am having a
discussion about this right now, at uk.legal:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/browse_frm/thread/16650bc13bc4f0b5/f370324a6c7b6c90#f370324a6c7b6c90
Best wishes,
Roy
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