VTMercutio

Microsoft will soon be its own country and it will have CIA operatives working their just to get the code...mark my words...hahaha

As a law student...this is a bad idea if Microsoft chooses to put a back door into Windows. Someone will find it and exploit it, and I guarantee it will not be the good guys. Law enforcement is always testing the boundaries to see what they can do against our civil liberties, and IMHO this is a thorough trouncing of privacy. Case in point look at the Patriot Act...that sucker is absolutely on the outter limits of sanity when you take privacy into account, and yet the American people deal with it because of the threat of terrorism and the dogma "if you have nothing to hide why do you care if the government looks?" If Microsoft responds to the public opinion by not putting this back door in, it will represent the general air of the public feeling that the government invasion of the home has its boundaries.

OK just in closing I realize that this is more for police officers wanting to look through seized computers, but the government doesn't have the best track record when it comes to using it's power as it was intended. Just look at the taps that were placed on Verizon data lines out in California and the injunction that was against google to release information. Just my twenty billion cents...sorry for the rant and rave.

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