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Wrong concept
This isn't about the network. This is about local harddrive encryption.

Think of it like this. Say the police supply you with a warrant for you PC to investgate a crime, say fraud or something. They get you PC but you files are encrypted with bitlocker. They want a back door to access those files.

Now I'm not sure how Vista will work but I'm assuming if you have administrator access you will probably be able to recover those file same as you can in Windows XP. So all a police officer does is image you drive then use boot utility to set the admin password and in they go. They then recover the data files and they have what they need. Not sure why they would need a special backdoor for this? Of course this assumes nothing changes in the future. Still I doubt Microsoft would lock thier OS down so much that the average user ends up locking themselves out of thier OS regularly. This happens already with Windows XP, luckily all it takes is special boot disk to get them fixed up.
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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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