Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

re: Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

AlanRR — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:16:05 GMT

@lilserenity I think Vista has a place on old laptops. I find it uses less power than XP (I get better battery life) and the sleep/hibernate system is much much better. I now hardly ever shutdown/reboot my laptop, I just close the lid and let it sleep. If the battery gets too low while asleep it puts itself into hibernation. My laptop isn't new enough to run aero but I don't mind the basic look and the power saving alone is well worth the switch from XP (not to mention all of the other little improvements such as the start menu search and the win+x key)

re: Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

BrightrevCarl — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:15:47 GMT

I saw a similar article today from PC World that's TITLED 'Microsoft Helps Law Enforcement Get Around Encryption.'

www.pcworld.com/.../microsoft_helps_law_enforcement_get_around_encryption.html

Here's the one and only line in the article that's worthwhile:

"While COFEE doesn't break BitLocker or open a back door..."

This is really, REALLY shoddy reporting.

re: Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

JamesRayG — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:15:15 GMT

No it won't. The better windows gets the more desperate the bashers get which results in more and more hysterical nonsense from the usual suspects.

re: Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

nmg82 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:01:01 GMT

I agree Paul. I wonder if Vista bashing will ever go out of style???

re: Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

lilserenity — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:12:19 GMT

I agree that Vista is actually not that bad. My experience is not like I had an epithany in realising my computing life would never be the same again.

Instead I realised that the elderly Pentium 4 2.4GHz machine of mine with a modest configuration and Thinkpad T40 using the original Pentium M Banias 1.5GHz is working more than fine in running XP. The bottom line is to see the biggest benefits of Vista Home Premium, would require better hardware for which I'd see no appreciable overall effect on my daily computing. So I'm not about to bin hardware that is working great with XP and providing me fun and enjoyment, to install Vista and slow the whole game down.

The world doesn't need my PCs in a landfill. That said one day I will get another laptop and a desktop PC. But that day isn't yet. XP was indeed a nightmare in 2001/02 and I stuck with 2000 until late 2002, but since then it has been more than good enough.

And I'm saying this as someone who has used Vista on decent hardware, and as someone who thought it was fine enough but not nearly compelling enough to make me re-invest hardware wise.

re: Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

brandon.pope — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:40:07 GMT

I agree, that is absolutely right.

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re: Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there’s no Windows 'back door'

joe-dokes — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:40:52 GMT

Have to agree with Paul on this one.

I saw the headline and thought is MS giving the hidden keys to the built in encryption in Vista. Turns out it is just a tool that allows for password resets.

In a word, they are making tools available, that any decent high school student should know about and be able to use.

The reality of this issue is: If you don't encrypt it, it ain't safe. And if you do encrypt it the 'puter better be powered down or the FBI can still sniff the key, regardless of the OS or security.

Regards

Joe Dokes