Feds: We will search through your laptop files at the border

[somanyholes]

dam disgrace, they need to reason to search your files, and if you refuse to hand over encryption keys they will take the laptop, and you won't get it back, wonder where it goes..... begins with an n..

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90325

[somanyholes]

oh great http://mashable.com/2008/04/29/microsoft-cofe/

so microsoft helps them, to help you lose your privacy.

[Rik]

Joy and more joy.

[Gary]

Makes bitlocker a bit pointless really, oh Vista Ultimate, so.........not ultimate really

[somanyholes]

i don't think that microsoft have provided a tool for the decryption of data kill, just for dehashing the passwords, if microsoft had put in back door in, it would be very very stupid....

[Rik]

Though handy if there was a fire...

[Gary]

i don't think that microsoft have provided a tool for the decryption of data kill, just for dehashing the passwords, if microsoft had put in back door in, it would be very very stupid....

I think they would kindly do it for the authorities, its the way to play the game of life to be seen as helping the end users privacy while enabling the government to get a hook into our drives when they need, it really would not surprise me at all

[Gary]

Though handy if there was a fire...

But the extinguishers would be incompatible with the kind of fire, its always bad to pour water on electrical flare ups, Rik