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Back Doors vs. Cowbells
A Back door has to have to communicate home.. That should be easy to check. An Agressive port scanner should find the network traffic.

Not at all. First off, the subject was encrypted filesystems. All the "back door" would have to do would be to have a "master key" or, more likely, a known key recovery mechanism. No communication required, Governments happy.

Even for remote exploits, the kernel could respond to a very specific UDP query. Any other stimulus would get the usual "invalid destination" response, which might be a silent trip to /dev/null. Send the right trigger, and the kernel responds with a crypto challenge -- only Microsoft knows the proper way to create a response.

Quite, quite doable. You'll just have to take Microsoft's word on this one.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 03/06/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Heck, why worry about back doors, they can waltz right in the  DonnieBoy | 03/03/06
seriously..  5th Limb in the Kisser | 03/03/06
Where am I??  April May | 03/04/06
professional?  stormdoor | 03/04/06
you say "and you are speaking for whom?"  April May | 03/04/06
This is different. It's NOT the Mac OS...  John Zern | 03/06/06
Trust any ?cat-in-a-bag? that comes from very ?honest? Bill Gates. (NT)  Vily Clay | 03/03/06
I don't think it makes business sense to do this  jmills@... | 03/03/06
Your right!  OhMyGosh | 03/04/06
Message has been deleted.  Nix_0S_Fan | 03/04/06
Give Linux a Break  BobinAtlanta | 03/04/06
Did you download and try the distro link I posted?  Nix_0S_Fan | 03/04/06
Linux is great but  stevey_d | 03/06/06
The guy in the street  thunderdome1 | 03/07/06
This would be easy to check  nucrash | 03/04/06
My thoughts...  Linux User 147560 | 03/04/06
Most back doors are imbedded in legitimate  bjbrock | 03/04/06
Very interesting, but....  April May | 03/04/06
I have an aluminum foil beenie on right now  zmud | 03/06/06
Well, they have to keep up with Linux  John Zern | 03/06/06
You're naive  thunderdome1 | 03/07/06
Back Doors vs. Cowbells  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/06/06
Wrong concept  voska | 03/06/06
It does not look that way..  Patrick Jones | 03/06/06
Of course M$ would PUBLICLY deny a backdoor...  Nix_0S_Fan | 03/04/06
hmmm....i think.....yep for sure...  April May | 03/04/06
hey codemaster  stormdoor | 03/04/06
I have to say Stormdoor...  April May | 03/04/06
That just shows..  5th Limb in the Kisser | 03/04/06
all systems will have backdoors put there by covert means  stevey_d | 03/06/06
Open source will not  thunderdome1 | 03/07/06
...  Vily Clay | 03/04/06
Backdoors  edjcox@... | 03/04/06
Backdoors  edjcox@... | 03/04/06
Vista doesn't need a backdoor for the police...  Mr. Roboto | 03/04/06
Are you ****ing serious?  falnar69 | 10/17/06
Come on guys,  DemonX | 03/05/06
When can we have encrypted email?  jinko | 03/06/06
Correction - Mail is not sent Plain Text  Confused by religion | 03/06/06
/golfclap NT  falnar69 | 10/17/06
Just install Thunderbird, Enigmail, and GnuPG  xunil skcor | 03/08/06
Does this even matter?  voska | 03/06/06
We will have to wait and see..  Patrick Jones | 03/06/06
No official backdoor.  Outside T. Box | 03/06/06
Why does it matter?  gergyllaer | 03/06/06
Here's what I'm worried about  thunderdome1 | 03/07/06
Here's What to Worry About  hforman@... | 01/07/09
"Over my dead body," ...(CIA) yeah ok, I'm comfortable with that  stevey_d | 03/06/06
No Back Door!  jbaviera@... | 03/06/06
How strong an encryption? Also, why wait for built in windows functionality  falnar69 | 10/17/06

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