Privacy Blog

When I read this message, I could not imagine that it is possible that a commercial organization like Microsoft, make backdoors in its own software, and offers programs to crack the system. They claim that the spy software is only for the government investigators, but I am 100% sure that at the time of no more than a few months, this software will be going into the wrong hands. The P2P-Software, as well as relevant underground sites will distribute it for free to everyone. And I currently see no way how to resolve the problem, unless you encrypt the entire of your disk with TrueCrypt.
Incidentally, I tried the tool already on my hard drive. I encrypted completely. I choose, as recommended a password that is longer then 20 characters, with special characters, small and large letters and numbers. Of course I don’t saved the password and created the rescue disk only as an image. It makes no sense to keep such things because of security reasons. Not that I have some special to hide, I’m just a technology freak and that’s why I do this.
Well, after a few days I forgot my password …
Actually, I thought, I have no other choice but to format the hard disk and forget about my photos (most important thing I save on the disk). I decided to wait some time with the formatting, a decision correct, because after a few weeks, I remembered my password. I noticed me a crib, so I can not forget the password, but I forgot the order of large and small letters in it.
Yesterday, when I read the above message, I thought to encrypt the hard disk of my notebook. This time I decided to wait and backup my data, before I beginn with the encryption.
The other possibility to avoid this security problem is more radically. We should switch to Linux. This decision is for some people even more difficult to take because the skills are simply not there and it is still often happens that we need specific software. This applies as for companies, as well as for individual users. WINE The project makes great progress already, but it will be very difficult for the developers, to make the project always up to date. As an example, I cantake the Photoshop. I have a student license for Photoshop CS3 acquired WINE supports only the previous version of Photoshop - CS2. The individual plug-ins that I have with Photoshop using, I can simply forget.
The final is - Microsoft made a real problem, both for customers, as well as for their own image. There is now any perfect solution for this security problem at this time.