____/ John Locke on Tuesday 03 July 2007 18:02 : \____
> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:05:35 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>____/ jim on Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:58 : \____
>>
>>> Intuit's backdoor to unlock user's encrypted financial data found by
>>> ElcomSoft....
>>>
>>> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-news/?p=741&tag=nl.e119
>>
>>There was another backdoor reported last week, unless it's the same one.
>>Passwords get nicked by folks in Russia, IIRC. More developers' eyes on the
>>code are needed, not inside traders' eyes (or pump-and-dumpers).
>
> Now I don't have worry if I loose my encryption key, I can just Google
> for it on the internet !!
*LOL*
Well, to use an analogy I recently came across, it only takes a small child to
go through the doggy trapdoor and let 5 armed men into a house. Likewise, one
small hack or data theft leads to free and unlimited duplication. It's like
attempts to control and enforce copyright laws on digital media (an
impossibility, so it only hurts legitimate and honest consumer). You may as
well assume that one such piggyback ride for your data will have no
boundaries.
Even the White House had serious intrusions due to Windows malware recently.
You may as well assume that America's intelligence is now shared with China,
Russia, Romania, Britain, and so forth. It only takes one 15-year-old
botmaster to get the data and then pass it on. As long as Windows servers
retain some of our personal data out there, the only way to secure one's
privacy is to never let it go digital (unless it's on your home/office Linux
box, with SSH-like tunnels in-between).
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