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Ima Fish, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:04pmI guess it's a good no one uses Vista.
John Smith, 30 Apr 2008 @ 3:30am
Re:I guess it's not a true dat no one uses a Vista
GeneralEmergency (profile), 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:07pm
Unbelievable, Mr. Balmer.Steve...Stevie buddy...What a monumentally stupid thing to do.
This single action will do more to kill off closed source OS software in private and corporate use than anything else I could imagine.
Mr. Balmer, you have a great deal of explaining to do and if you had one ounce of sense you would offer a test program to confirm this back door's existence on any particular machine and a matching patch to rip out this vulnerability.
Oh...and if you were still clinging to any wild imaginings that Vista had a future, kiss them goodbye. Right now.
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 3:13pm
Re: Unbelievable, Mr. Balmer.GeneralEmergency regurgitated:
Steve...Stevie buddy...What a monumentally stupid thing to do.
This single action will do more to kill off closed source OS software in private and corporate use than anything else I could imagine.
GE, GE Buddy, what a monumentally stupid post. Try reading the story (stories) and thinking a bit before posting. (Note: This may require removal of a cranial-rectal impaction) Do you really think that MS NT-based Operating Systems, having been around for about 15 years, would have not been discovered to contain backdoors by now. Surely, you must admit that the hackerz and haters would have found and revealed them by now.
If the key were to exist, it would be illegal in many locales - do you think MS would PUBLICLY announce the presence of a tool to exploit this supposed backdoor and expose themselves to untold legal liabilities? Usually conspiracy creators at least try to make them plausible. Please insert another quarter andtry again. It's almost as if you are biased or something....
Anonymous Cow, 3 May 2008 @ 11:03pm
Re: Re: Unbelievable, Mr. Balmer.=====
GE, GE Buddy, what a monumentally stupid post. Try reading the story (stories) and thinking a bit before posting. (Note: This may require removal of a cranial-rectal impaction) Do you really think that MS NT-based Operating Systems, having been around for about 15 years, would have not been discovered to contain backdoors by now. Surely, you must admit that the hackerz and haters would have found and revealed them by now.
If the key were to exist, it would be illegal in many locales - do you think MS would PUBLICLY announce the presence of a tool to exploit this supposed backdoor and expose themselves to untold legal liabilities? Usually conspiracy creators at least try to make them plausible. Please insert another quarter andtry again. It's almost as if you are biased or something....
Uhh, they already have a known backdoor check out the NSAKEY scandal that broke some years ago.
Leslieallen, 9 Mar 2016 @ 2:14am
Re: Unbelievable, Mr. Balmer.Well Mr. Unbelievable, i.e. Mr Balmer... read this u numskull.
and this
there is much more... just do a google search...if anyone wants to know if backdoors exist. Microsoft is a traitor to the people...our country and no one should ever trust them again. Bill Gates... how can you sleep at night?
Joe Smith, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:08pm
does it workIf the back door works as well as the rest of Vista, maybe there isn't a problem. Of course, if this is the one part of Vista that does work properly then Vista is not secure and anyone concerned about security needs to use a third party product for sensitive data.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:11pmWait!!! Vista was secure? it had security features?
wow.Since when?
someone, 2 May 2008 @ 1:25am
Re:Since when was any version of Windows secure?
Anonymous Coward, 12 May 2008 @ 7:57pm
Re: Vista was secure?True virtual but only when you don't need it
Article is Unclear, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:19pmThe article isn't really clear, and journalists often get stuff wrong. It's possible that this does nothing to bypass the BitLocker encryption and is basically just a handy script to run ntpasswd type utitlities and copy over all of a user's files.
James (profile), 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:33pm
Re:Probably not. If the machine is on a domain then enterprise admins can bypass bitlocker, so there is already proof that bitlocker can be bypassed. I am sure the key will work even on a stand alone machine.
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 3:15pm
Re: Re:>>then enterprise admins can bypass bitlocker, so there is already proof that bitlocker can be bypassed. I am sure the key will work even on a stand alone machine.
Please supply some of this proof.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:25pm"More than 2,000 officers in 15 countries, including Poland, the Philippines, Germany, New Zealand and the United States, are using the device, which Microsoft provides free."
Wow, it staggers the mind they would even put something like this out in the wild. Ok, place your bets. How long until the hacker community gets hold of one of these USB's?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:43pm
Re:And then creates a virus using it
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:10pm
Ok, place your bets. How long until the hacker community gets hold of one of these USB's?What makes you think they haven't already?
Dave Zawislak, 29 Apr 2008 @ 3:21pm
Re: Re:If the "cops" have it, it IS already in the hackers hands. They just wear more recognized insignias.
Leslie Allen, 9 Mar 2016 @ 1:15am
Re: Backdoor Keys in the wild and with police.Well I know for a fact that in Philippines and Indonesia from my own experience... almost anything can be bought for a price from the most honest looking police officer and or politician or individual who has access to almost anything.
Bribery is all well and official in almost all Asian countries... and I expect it is in most countries including the USA. Look at how many dishonest police there are...and that is only the ones we hear about. We all know there is a certain percentage of police... fbi and all legal professions who are dirty and will sell nearly anything for the right price, doesn't matter who the receiver is.
I know this for a fact, as I have experienced this myself... in the many Asian countries I have traveled. Fact is... bribery is the normal way for those in the know to get out of trouble. And it is practiced quite openly. If you travel abroad... and don't know this... I pity you, you will have little way for redress in Asia in most cases. Even most attorney's split there fees with public officials, and so you can now imagine where at least 50% of your attorney's fees automatically go. If you don't believe me... ask and you will find out for yourself.
Leslieallen, 9 Mar 2016 @ 1:39am
Re: Re: Backdoor Keys in the wild and with police.Some additional information on breaking bitlocker... one of many.
Jason, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:32pmThere are already disks you can use to boot windows by erasing or replacing the admin password.....
Re:There are already disks you can use to boot windows by erasing or replacing the admin password.....
old and busted: brute forcing a new password.
new hotness: cracking the password so no one knows you have it.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:58pm
Re: Re:new hotness: cracking the password so no one knows you have it.
Doesn't work with long (>14 characters) passwords.
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 1:59pm
Re:As far as I know, this technique only works on machienes which maintain LanMan security compatiblity; if this feature is disabled (which it was/is not by default on XP, and I don't know about Vista), this technique fails. I'm open to being shown to be incorrect (rather than most of the spewheads here), but that is my understanding.
D. Davis, 1 May 2008 @ 8:18am
Re: Replacing PasswodDo you have info on where I can obtain this disk, I have a computer that I lost password to.
Anonymous of Course, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:35pm
It's not much of a backdoorIt decrypts passwords, you can get tools
to do that already.
It seems that cofee is a collection of tools
on a USB drive for live forenisic analysis.
This is interesting,
Joel, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:38pm
Did you even read the articleHow on earth is this a backdoor? First off all the investigators need physical access, which is already a big step (and the only step unless the drive is encrypted or the "evidence" resides only in memory). You're pulling some pretty large assumptions out of thin air (e.g. backdoor to drive encryption) when in fact the only difference between this and simply using one of the numerous Live CD forensics kits is the potential to pull data out of memory (which in the case of Vista is likely to be on the disk somewhere anyways) and possibly gain access to an encrypted volume, but that still depends on the scheme, and is not at all indicated in the article.
The article is sadly anemic on the details besides it being apparent that MS is providing forensics tools tailored to its OS, tools which in your fearmongering scenario would be useless against any intelligent criminal, and the unintelligent criminals probably aren't going to be using security features which this, in your mind, works around. All we really glean from this is you can more quickly obtain a password (which was already crackable on windows machines). It doesn't mention the ability to bypass any drive encryption, even BitLocker, which MS also says is secure from any backdoors.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:24pm
Re: Did you even read the article
How on earth is this a backdoor?You've got to be kidding or you have no idea what a backdoor is (or you're a Microsoft apologist).
All we really glean from this is you can more quickly obtain a password (which was already crackable on windows machines).As far as I know, there is no other tool that will directly reveal a user's Windows password (not counting key-loggers). The only other method is brute force guessing which is ineffective against suitably strong passwords.
It doesn't mention the ability to bypass any drive encryption, even BitLocker, which MS also says is secure from any backdoors.Once you've got a user's password on the machine you can login as that user and access all of that user's BitLocker files. This tool provides those passwords. Understand how that works?
Re: Re: Did you even read the articleAs far as I know, there is no other tool that will directly reveal a user's Windows password (not counting key-loggers). The only other method is brute force guessing which is ineffective against suitably strong passwords.
you use john.
if you want to use a few extra PCs to help you crack a truely "strong" password there is distributed john.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:50pm
Re: Re: Re: Did you even read the article
you use john.John The Ripper, even the distributed version, is a brute force password guesser. It isn't practical with suitably strong passwords.
Joel, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:16pm
Re: Re: Did you even read the articleAC, you appear to have me mistaken for a MS apologist. Rather, I have no faith in Microsoft's security systems and painting it as a "backdoor" would either catch MS in (yet another) blatant security lie. The existence of such tools should be neither surprising nor something someone should be unprepared for. The article is vague and most likely loaded with errors. Mike is, as usual, adding useless commentary.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:21pm
Re: Re: Re: Did you even read the article
AC, you appear to have me mistaken for a MS apologist.OK. Sorry about that then.
James, 29 Apr 2008 @ 3:37pm
Re: Did you even read the articleThe whole idea is that when law enforcement needs access to evidence on a pc whether desktop or laptop they will have access to the files on the hard drive assuming Windows is even passworded. Supervisor passwords can be reset by simply removing the battery from the motherboard then waiting a few seconds and putting it back in. Sorry to go off topic. :p
Bob, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:38pm
FTCMicrosoft Counsel Brad Smith - "Children are particularly at risk to anonymous predators or those with false identities. "Criminals seek to win a child's confidence in cyberspace and meet in real space," Smith cautioned."
Oh, It's for the Children....
Overcast, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:38pmIf it requires physical access - then it's kind of a moot point anyway.
Yoorah, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:51pm
Microsoft security = lolPGP Whole Disk Encryption, anyone? I would never have trusted Microsoft's built-in security, anyway.
I don't know how probable this really is, but I've had the feeling that all (most?) of those really extreme security holes in Windows products have been created intentionally, to let organizations like the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. have backdoor access to computer systems when they deem they have the need for it. I remember reading an article about China not choosing to run their government systems on Windows for this very reason, as the source is closed and they couldn't easily check it for backdoors.
Wouldn't building a secure OS that cannot be backdoor hacked by someone like the NSA be considered a dangerous weapon/national security risk? At least, that's how they used to (or maybe they still are?) look at secure encryption systems, with export bans/restrictions and all that good stuff.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:21pm
Re: Microsoft security = lol"I remember reading an article about China not choosing to run their government systems on Windows for this very reason, as the source is closed and they couldn't easily check it for backdoors."
Are you sure you are not thinking of the Tom Clancy novel "The Bear and the Dragon"? This is exactly what happened in that story. Or maybe the Chinese read the novel instead.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:51pmjust mount the partition under linux with knopix or such. it won't get you past encryption but it will bypass passwords.
DW, 29 Apr 2008 @ 12:52pmMhm. And there are *no* dirty law enforcement officers out there. None at all. I should be glad that no cops in my town are snorting coke, or taking bribes, or selling any of these keys to "criminals".
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 3:22pm
And I thought the article itself reached peak stupidityYes, let's get rid of all of the police along with all of the computers.
Kevin, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:01pm
Backdoor?I don't see anything in the article (or several others that I read on the topic) about there being a back door. The article says:
The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which is becoming more important in real-world crime, as well as cybercrime. It can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer.
Most people who do computer forensics already have a similar toolkit. This sounds like Microsoft just saved people the trouble of compiling their own. From the article, it sounds like the improvement here is the law enforcement equivalent of a script kiddie. Instead of actually having to understand and know how to use the technology, you can use a collection of scripts to do it all for you automatically.
News flash: Microsoft's password-hashing algorithm used on local PCs has never been that hard to crack, and as others have pointed out you can use any number of products to reset the password from a non-Windows boot disk if you don't want to crack it. So that's not a new capability.
If you have a password to log onto the system, especially for an admin account, it is trivial to pull the IE browsing history. There are several logs, and parsing them all can be a pain in the butt, but there are already tools that exist to simplify this process.
Finally, if you have access to a PC's hard disk it is trivial to run any number of disk tools to scan/analyze the hard disk. You certainly don't need a password, let alone an MS tool to do it.
There's nothing in the article anywhere that refers to there being a backdoor, or anything that even sounds like a backdoor. Mike should probably remove references to that, but then he loses his "story". Furthermore there is absolutely nothing in the article that indicates a capability to circumvent disk encryption, though that didn't stop some posters here from speculating that the capability existed.
Maybe I should buy each of you a "jump to conclusions" map.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:42pm
Re: Backdoor?
I don't see anything in the article (or several others that I read on the topic) about there being a back door. The article says:Well, you may not think that the ability to decrypt all the passwords on the system is any kind of backdoor, but plenty of people would disagree.
The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather digital evidence, which is becoming more important in real-world crime, as well as cybercrime. It can decrypt passwords...
Microsoft's password-hashing algorithm used on local PCs has never been that hard to crack, and as others have pointed out you can use any number of products to reset the password from a non-Windows boot disk if you don't want to crack it. So that's not a new capability.Resetting the password will NOT give you access to the user's BitLocker encrypted files. And brute force cracking isn't practical with strong passwords.
Finally, if you have access to a PC's hard disk it is trivial to run any number of disk tools to scan/analyze the hard disk. You certainly don't need a password, let alone an MS tool to do it.Good luck with encrypted areas.
There's nothing in the article anywhere that refers to there being a backdoor, or anything that even sounds like a backdoor.Again, most security people would disagree with that. A built-in ability that Microsoft can use to decrypt passwords is a backdoor in most people's books.
Mike should probably remove references to that, but then he loses his "story".Why should he? If the what the story says is true, then it's a backdoor.
Furthermore there is absolutely nothing in the article that indicates a capability to circumvent disk encryption, though that didn't stop some posters here from speculating that the capability existed.If you have the user's password on the system, you can decrypt their BitLocker files. That seems pretty straight forward to me.
Maybe I should buy each of you a "jump to conclusions" map.Maybe you should buy yourself a clue first.
Desmond Haynes, Jr., 7 May 2008 @ 6:14pm
Re: Backdoor?Thanks for the clarification!
DannyB, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:07pm
Physical access can still mean 'back door'A back door is a built in quick way to bypass security. It does not imply remote access. If there is a way to quickly bypass all security when you have physical access, that still qualifies as a back door.
Also, just because it might not be remotely exploitable doesn't mean that once in the hands of bad guys it won't have devastating consequences.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:12pmYes. Lets all start the conspiracies.
So, instead lets make an OS that ties the hands of law enforcement and gives terrorists the tool they need to kill us all.
idiots. complacent idiots. All of you.
Someone else out there said it best. If it requires physical access (and a USB key would) then its a moot point you are all making.
norights left, 29 Apr 2008 @ 3:38pm
Re:Any law, amendment, or God given right that prevents the capture of terrorist should just be erased. I prefer a government where I have to be scared of what I think, read, or say.
By the way the root of "terrorist" is terror. Obviously worked on you since you are so willing to give up your rights. America is not just a piece of land, it was a concept of true democracy. Therefore when you give up your rights that the people voted for, you just allowed terrorist to attack "America".
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:27pmNo, Mike knows what he is talking about anyone who thinks he is stretching the truth is an idiot. Mike is right about everything. Mike is my personal lord and saviour.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:54pm
Re:"Mike is my personal lord and saviour."
Just can't wait to get to hell, can you?
The great apatheist, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:29pm
Who cares!I don't commit anti-national activities. So any police can come and copy my whole hard drive.
I don't use computer to store sensitive material because I am not stupid. I only use vista to watch porn and watch legal DVDs.
GeneralEmergency (profile), 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:06pm
Re: Who cares!You should.
How would you like to spend years in prison for an "Information Crime" that you did not commit?
All it takes is:
a) Some who dislikes you.
b) Physical access to a computer you use.
c) A Microsoft(tm) USB Vista(tm) Backdoor key.
d) Kiddie porn.
e) A dime phone call to the local PD.
Enjoy your time in prison thinking about who to trust next time.
James, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:36pm
Re: Re: Who cares!You can still makes calls for a dime??
GeneralEmergency (profile), 29 Apr 2008 @ 3:46pm
Re: Re: Re: Who cares!Ooops! My tree rings are showing!
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 1:57pm
Re: Re: Who cares!Where the heck do you get phone calls for a dime? They are 75-cents here! Why don't you consipiracy whackos investigate the price-fixing in the payphone business instead of blathering on about a completely bogus speculation of the existence of a backdoor.
When this tool is analyzed, it will be shown to be nothing more than a collection of tools which automate already existing processes of finding evidence on a Windows machine. Period.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:17pm
Re: Who cares!"I don't commit anti-national activities. So any police can come and copy my whole hard drive.
I don't use computer to store sensitive material because I am not stupid."
Yes, let's willingly give up more of our freedoms and privacy. What a brilliant idea!
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:37pmyes the terrorist are only loosing becasue they dont have a 100% secure laptop.
Cookie, 29 Apr 2008 @ 1:55pm
Remote exploitWireless USB - 'nuff said.
MSosa, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:10pmI wonder if Apple's File Vault has a similar back door? Its supposed to have 128key encryption. If they can get your user password, then the drive would be safe right?
BTW Anonymous Coward, You don't need criminal intention to want security of your data. If this backdoor allows access to personal information stored on a computer even if encrypted,then caveat emptor!
apple encryption, 29 Apr 2008 @ 3:47pm
Re:I have vista and a mac. Was using vista for my business financial stuff... may be reconsidering that real soon! I don't know much about cracking and what not and never used file vault. I have created a diskimage with its own separate 128 bit encryption password. Even if someone got my mac's user password, its not the same. I feel comfortable locking up my taxes and other important personal data in that.
Nasch, 30 Apr 2008 @ 9:38am
Re: Re: EncryptionConsider using TrueCrypt. Its password is separate from the OS, so if someone gains access to your account they still won't be able to decrypt your files. Pick a good algorithm (the app will help you choose) and a strong password, and you're all set.
Info Seeker, 30 Apr 2008 @ 11:36am
Re: Re: Re: EncryptionThanks for this information. At least there is some way to protect our selfs from legal criminals. I think that it is unconstatutional to give someones information away and who gives them the right to do so. I am disgusted. I do have Vista and removing it today. I also had One Care.
No Privacy Rights
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 2:11pmmean to say "if they cannot get to your user password"
wasnt me, 29 Apr 2008 @ 3:47pmi wonder how long it will take before i can download those encryption codes from the net.
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 2:03pm
Re:Oh, I'd go with NEVER, since they don't exist
Scott Gardner, 29 Apr 2008 @ 4:50pm
EncryptionI just use TrueCrypt (available for OS X and Windows, among other platforms).
I have a volume set up using AES-Twofish-Serpent encryption, a 768-bit key, and a 20-character password made up of numbers, upper/lowercase letters, and symbols. The password and volume information aren't stored in Keychain or cached anywhere in the system, nor are they written down anywhere.
Mathematically, it's pretty much uncrackable - The only potential problem is if someone finds a flaw in TrueCrypt's implementation of the encryption algorithms. Given that it's open-source, that at least improves the chances of any such flaws being discovered.
Yakumo, 30 Apr 2008 @ 6:40am
Re: EncryptionYour still boned if you have a firewire port on that machine, they supply DMA, there are tools in the wild as of several months ago that will provide access to a complete dump of your ram and hibernation files whatever state your system is in, and whatever OS you use.
And even if you've switched off there are tools available that can pull enough of your pre-power-down ram state to explorer for your truecrypt pass.
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 2:07pm
Re: Re: Encryption>>And even if you've switched off there are tools available that can pull enough of your pre-power-down ram state to explorer for your truecrypt pass.
I tried to go to the links you used as references, but they didn't seem to exist.
Bruce Barnett, 29 Apr 2008 @ 5:05pm
COFEEHere's a paper on COFEE
In year 2006, inspired by WFT, Ricci Ieong started the development of Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) (Ieong 2006):
mms, 29 Apr 2008 @ 5:13pm
Windows passwordsIs MS going to go through all the trouble of producing and distributing USB keys to law enforcements, and equip them with john?
No, because MS wrote the password hashing code and likely planned in advance to distribute a tool to LE to get around Vista passwords. Since no one outside MS sees the source, no one knows what methods exist to do this.
It seems :stupid: to hand LE a brute-force tool to solve the password hashed by your own code, since they already know how to brute-force if they want. The tool adds nothing, so why spend $$$ distributing it?
But, if your tool has a much more efficient method of cracking (or retrieving) passwords, then you're giving LE an amazing advantage in forensic tech. This seems worth the $$$ invested.
Vista uses NTLM passwords by default (when not in a domain), so I don't really fear anyone with a brute force trying to break my strong login password. (LM, however, scares the hell out of me and I disable it in the XP registry to be safe.) Also, an attacker armed with this key scares the hell out of me because I'm sure my NTLM 14+ char passwd is no match for a retrieval solution that doesn't care how well-crafted my login is.
Physical access to my Vista laptop = knowing when I'm out of my room + cutting my Kensington lock. A real problem, and not a moot point for laptop installs.
Old_Paranoid, 29 Apr 2008 @ 5:16pm
Windows USB "Backdoor" NOTThis is a very badly written summary.
I have worked for Microsoft doing Windows security for a few years now, but the truth of the situation is clearly much different than reported.
There is no Microsoft USB backdoor key to Windows. But both the USB bus and the 1394 (Firewire) bus were designed with inadequate attention to security. A compliant implementation of both can cause security issues for the OS supporting them. With Vista, Microsoft supports the ability to restrict the security vulnerabilities associated with the USB bus. This security policy significantly reduces the usability of consumer usage scenarios and is off by default (it can be set by Group Policy). The 1394 interface is insecure by default -- the cure for hostile 1394 devices is epoxy. For the more paranoid organizations, the cure for USB interface vulnerabilities is epoxy as well, requiring HW that supports PS2 plugs – as you never know if the USB device you are talking to is actually what it reports itself to be.
Evidence gathered by the police is only useable if it meets very stringent standards of data gathering and clear control and possession. Hence, specialized forensic tools have to be used that do not alter data on the system. And it is important to gather evidence, typically a table of hashes, that allows the investigators to show that data / evidence was not altered if and when such evidence may be used at a trial. As such, having certified scripted data acquisition tools that create memory and disc images and associated hashes are invaluable. I am not familiar with this particular tool set, but it would appear that Microsoft has made such a tool set for the gathering of forensic evidence from systems. Other providers supply such tools as well.
If the user has enabled bitlocker and EFS, configured them correctly, and the system is powered down (enough for transient charges and polarization of dielectrics to discharge), there is no technical attack against the system. There is a legal one – hold one or more parties who have knowledge of the key until they divulge it. Depending upon the perceived value of the data in question, governments have shown themselves to be quite persuasive. Attackers with physical access to a running system have more opportunities to compromise the system, and it does not matter what OS is running on it. A physically compromised system must be viewed as compromised; it is a question of time and resources to break it.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 7:52pm
Re: Windows USB
I have worked for Microsoft doing Windows security for a few years now, but the truth of the situation is clearly much different than reported.Well, if you want us to believe that you're really a Microsoft employee then you should provide your name and tell us what you official position in the company is. I could claim to be Bill Gates, but people would be foolish to believe me.
There is no Microsoft USB backdoor key to Windows.You mean, that you know of? If you can prove that, then please do so. But an anonymous claim on a blog isn't exactly convincing and I haven't seen The Seattle Times retracting their story.
I am not familiar with this particular tool set,...Then how is it that you can say that it does not do what the Seattle Times article says it does? And do you mean for us to believe that someone who has "worked for Microsoft doing Windows security for a few years now" isn't familiar with this tool? Then I'd question if you were really in the know at MS (if you actually worked there).
Jake, 29 Apr 2008 @ 5:37pmAs has already been pointed out, there are numerous third-party software tools in existence that do much the same thing, only not as well as something made by the people with access to the source code of everything Microsoft have ever made. Before 9/11 I would have been reluctantly okay with Microsoft selling such devices to reputable law-enforcement agencies, since their use would be controlled by adequately tight search-and-seizure regulations that nobody was seriously proposing to do away with, and our major police organisations had finally stamped out corruption about as much as they were ever going to; I'd have thought the biggest problem was making sure the devices were kept somewhere very, very secure when not in use.
Now, however, it's sadly no longer possible to trust any government agency with any such device. The most depressing part is that someone shoving one of these into one of my computer's USB ports without a warrant is probably the least of my civil liberties worries these days.
asdsad, 29 Apr 2008 @ 6:26pm
You're a bloody moron.Honestly, how can any self respecting person go on about 'backdoors' and the rubbish you posted when you're blatantly lying.
Do the world a favour, stop writing, please. Keep your stupidity to yourself, hypocritical whore.
Ray, 29 Apr 2008 @ 7:21pm
The software is called Cofeeand my guess would be.. downloads will start appearing... yesterday... when the news hit from PC world that microshaft invited so many people to their Washington State USA headquarters for training... I wont run Vista... not even a Vista Certified machine that my mother purchased 6 months ago has withstood the test of a non-computer savvy user. the worst part... she didn't ask me to help her pick one out.. she spent 2800.00 on a Compaq (gaming Rig) that cant even seem to boot correctly... if she had asked me... i would have sold her my personal rig, and built another from scratch for 1000.00 Compaq has made the machine pretty much useless... they wont even offer a XP alternative... you would think that for the kind of money spent... she wont let me put xp on it because i told her that if she buys a Vista rig.. i cant support it...
Rekrul, 29 Apr 2008 @ 8:09pm
So, instead lets make an OS that ties the hands of law enforcement and gives terrorists the tool they need to kill us all.
I have an idea how to keep us all safe; Let's install close-circuit TV cameras in every room of everyone's home so that they can be monitored at will by the police, or the FBI, or the NSA. I'm sure you won't mind since you obviously have nothing to hide, right? Sure, there's a chance that a humorous video of you sitting on the toilet having an attack of explosive diarrhea might find it's way onto YouTube, but if that's the price we have to pay to be safe, it's worth it, right?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 8:14pm
Microsoft NSA_KEY
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 9:13pm
where's the .iso ?please
Sean, 29 Apr 2008 @ 9:47pm
VistaWhat the hell is this "Vista" you guys keep babbling about?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Apr 2008 @ 10:55pm
What time is it?Is it time to buy a Mac?
God I hate those commercials.
Officer C. Randall, 29 Apr 2008 @ 11:14pm
Key for saleI have one of these keys and will sell it to the first bidder at $5,000
Blast off!, 30 Apr 2008 @ 12:06am
Microsoft hosts its own police academyOMG They are arming the ratbots!
Ajay, 30 Apr 2008 @ 1:47am
Good Workhey this is really good step taken by ms.
hans, 30 Apr 2008 @ 3:35am
Vista security backdoors no problem for Linux users10 years ago I switched from MS products to Linux OS. As a professional/full time user of computers I have no problem doing my job to my fullest satisfaction using always most current and updated openSuSE Linux.
Hence such rumors about MS scewing people have been out there since many years ...
They have no effect for serious security oriented ppl using Linux. If governments such as Swiss federal government can run their top level servers all on such SuSE/Novell Linux servers - and many other governments and largest companies as well, then just move on in life into the secure environment of open source operating system.
Welcome in the world of freedom!
Mathew, 30 Apr 2008 @ 6:35am
and you trust cops with this..?Well looks like we just need to make a workaround to stop this, like any other security threat. I consider it equivelent to an exploit myself.
On the plus side, they gave it to cops, which means it will be easy for us to buy a copy off of some degenerate gambling alchoholic with a badge.
Let me first say that I am a huge Microsoft and Vista supported. I fight and argue every bad thing some ignorant half educated citizen has to say about them. And yes, Vista is the best OS. However on this one action, damn, how stupid. There is no way to stick up for you this time Bill.
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 2:05pm
Re: and you trust cops with this..?Try reading and thinking, and you won't have to stick up for Microsoft on this one since it's completely bogus.
BTW, your good friend "Bill" isn't running the company anymore.
Mischa G, 30 Apr 2008 @ 7:10am
OyThat's really special. I wonder how long till the program shows up on the internet for download. So much for Vista's security.
More at Impatient Sufferance.
draciron, 30 Apr 2008 @ 9:14am
Old newsYou don't need a special USB device. Just boot into any Nix variant live CD with custom tools. I've saved many a windows admin who couldn't get into a machine and once or twice took over networks from fired admins who did not pass on the admin passwords. The encryption on the windows password DB has been very weak for a long time. The last copy I have was of tools that break the NT encryption but I'm sure there's equivs out for XP and Vista. It's been a long standing problem with windows.
What is a bigger problem security wise is even though you THINK you deleted something it has a nasty habit of just getting moved around. Take a sector editor to any windows machine and you'd be amazed what you find just sitting around on the HD. Especially since the default moves the cache files all over the HD. So you've got cache files basically scattered all over your drive just waiting to be seen. Internet history, documents and all sorts of potentially sensitive data is cached as well. When recovering documents for users I've found copies of those documents in some really strange places. The user was just glad I recovered some or all of their lost work. I just sat there scratching my head as to why there was a copy there and not in the normal temp dir where you'd think such files would be kept. Varies from version to version as to where those things turn up.
If you want security on any machine with any OS you have to zero out the free space periodically to truly erase files. Even then if a well funded agency wants that data merely zeroing it out is not enough. There are several good free multi-platform utilities that allow for obliterating the data. Unfortunately windows does not work and play well with multiple partitions so it's a real pain on a windows machine to move everything off a partition and wipe it good. Luckily it's only necessary if your facing somebody that REALLY might want your data like spies from other countries, law enforcement and such. The average hacker today is a glorified script kitty who wouldn't know what to do with a hex dump and probably has never heard of a sector walker. Hacking windows is so easy they don't need much skill or knowledge to accomplish it. Enough people don't even know to empty their trash cans, erase cache files and temp files that it's no challenge. Think about it, every time your app crashes all those cache files remain. So whatever you were in the middle of, a snapshot of it sits there on the hard drive until you manually delete it. If you were in the middle of a sensitive document it's there. Thumbnails from images you deleted long ago generally sit around forever. I've made a buck or two doing data forensics for suspicious spouses and it's not hard to figure out where and what a windows user has been up to. Microsoft is messy, very messy. Leaves all sorts of stuff laying around.
Social engineering is easier anyway. Most people have a copy of their passwords stuck in a drawer, on them or it's something related to them. Birthdays, SSNs, pet names, stuff like that. A little knowledge about a person and with most people you can figure out their password pretty quickly. Just a stacked dictionary attack will find most passwords. When doing security audits on passwords it's usually %75 to %80 of passwords are easily cracked if you don't have stringent controls on what can be used as a password. However the more stringent the controls the more likely their password is to be written down nearby the computer. Admins are often lazy too. The more stringent the controls the more often users show up at your door asking for a password reset because they forgot theirs. Some every friggin weekend grrrrr.
Last lets look at Microsoft's philosophy. Microsoft was eager to put the Clipper chip into effect. Microsoft was happy to filter the MSN search engine results for China. It doesn't stop at China. Do a search on Google, Yahoo and MSN about something Microsoft doesn't want you to know and you'll see dramatically different results. Two searches especially show the manipulation of Microsoft. Search for Linux topics on MSN and you'll find anti-Linux sites all over the top 2 or 3 pages, maybe more, I only went 2 to 3 pages. The results from Yahoo and Google are fairly close. Look for searches on a windows vulnerability and you again see from Google and Yahoo close results and often example exploit code. You won't find that on the MSN search engines.
Microsoft was a leader in the use and development of DRM. It is the archetect of it really. Microsoft partnered with the big record companies and movie studios and used it's weight to attempt to force Intel and AMD to include DRM as chip level hardware features.
You didn't see any Microsoft programmers in jail along side the author of PGP when the Clinton administration cracked down on encryption software. Microsoft happily gave the Gov backdoor keys to it's encryption. You do not need a USB key for that, just the keys the Gov has had for over a decade.
The examples go on and on of Microsoft cooperating with governments and not even informing people they have sold them out. If you use windows you HAVE NO PRIVACY. The use of Windows assures exactly that because of Microsoft's core ideals and philosophy. Think about it, Gates actually said we should all be constantly under camera survaliance so that if we are accused of a crime we can prove our innocence. Can you expect anything from Microsoft to not reflect that philosophy?
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 3:31pm
Re: Old news>>Microsoft happily gave the Gov backdoor keys to it's encryption. You do not need a USB key for that, just the keys the Gov has had for over a decade
>>Think about it, Gates actually said we should all be constantly under camera survaliance so that if we are accused of a crime we can prove our innocence.
citations, please
Steve, 30 Apr 2008 @ 10:47am
Microsoft Gives Vista Backdoor Keys To The PoliceActually, every copy of windows has a back door called the nsa key. And this was way before 9/11...
Google these terms:
windows back door nsa key
It's fascinating reading.
Vlad, 30 Apr 2008 @ 11:39amWhy would anyone believe any "security" provided by Microsoft is beyond me. If the source code of an encryption program is not publicly available there is no guarantee of any security. Let the Big Brother try to decrypt my PGP encrypted files or TrueCrypt volumes, LOL.
Nick, 30 Apr 2008 @ 1:46pm
This article is misleadingthe tool provided by microsoft is only a suite of FREELY AVAILABLE TOOLS. this article takes advantage of flame inducing title to mislead readers with uneducated and under researched findings.
if anyone wants to read an accurate article from "wired" on the topic:
Todd, 30 Apr 2008 @ 1:51pm
Grow up and learn to read...
There is not a security backdoor built into Windows - if you say there is, prove it, rather than running around like children who think they have a secret.
Do any of you seriously believe that such a conspiracy could be successfully hidden more than 30 minutes? Do you think that MS spokespersons would be attributed in a story about a tool to exploit the supposed backdoor if it were anything as nefarious as some fanboyz allege? Maybe, just maybe they would choose to not comment if there did exist such a tool? The only tools here are the ones running around half-cocked, spewing BS they have no ability to verify, validate, or even understand.
I heard that the new Ubuntu has a built-in feature which reports every download to the RIAA and FBI. Sure it's supposedly open-source, but there's no guarantee that the Ubuntu distro is actually built from the open=source listings, is there? And Ubuntu developers HAVE NOT DENIED IT, have they?
Old_Paranoid, 30 Apr 2008 @ 4:24pm
RE: Windows USB "Backdoor" NOTAn amazing amount of sound and fury over essentially nothing, a convenient set of forensic tools and scripts to automate evidence capture by law enforcement.
Law enforcement cannot use arbitrary hacker tools for evidence gathering because of the issue of integrity and provenance - do you know what the tools do and who will stand up and testify as to what the tools do and do not do?
As for much of the highly emotional flames, as an old security hand, I have a rather thick skin. If not, the fire from the feature teams I am bugging would long ago have incinerated me.
Proving the absence of a specified characteristic in complex software is essentially impossible. Hence the Common Criteria evaluation, which looks for security relevant issues and has access to the source code, design documentation, and internal tools. Major governments also have source code reader access so that they can verify that the code is appropriate. Many major corporations do so as well.
Do you think Microsoft's governmental or enterprise customers would deploy servers and clients with engineered-in back-doors? If so, you have a far lower opinion of the professional competence of their IT and Information Assurance experts than I. I have met some idiots, it is true, but I have met a lot of deeply knowledgeable professionals.
ron, 30 Apr 2008 @ 5:58pm
vista back doorno need to go to all this fuss just use a program ( I recommend Bestcrypt NP made in Sweden has 256 bit encryption
no back doors ) makes containers on hard drive. Impossible to crack without pass sentence. no restriction as to bit strength.let THEM look at anything on your computer as long as you keep the pass sentence off the computer in your head! all your secrets will be safe not counting the truth drugs...
Danny, 30 Apr 2008 @ 9:18pm
How is that you are qualified to write about anything?Wow...You must be one of the least informed tech "writers" alive if you are dumb enough to think (I use the term loosely) that you need a backdoor to break a password. Hilarious.
Re: How is that you are qualified to write about anything?Wow...You must be one of the least informed tech "writers" alive if you are dumb enough to think (I use the term loosely) that you need a backdoor to break a password. Hilarious.
Always nice to have people accuse you of sheer idiocy rather than take the time to understand what you wrote.
I did not say that was the only way to break a password. But from the description in the original article, it was made to sound like this key would merely *give* the user the password. There was no indication that it involved an auditing tool to determine the password.
I'm sorry if that makes me stupid -- but based on the initial information, it sounded like a backdoor. I updated the post to clarify once the details were known.
BlueBoden, 1 May 2008 @ 6:52amSo many who have so much to hide, behold god sees all; there is no place to hide.
Trade Leads, 2 May 2008 @ 4:34am
I hardly dont know anyoneI hardly don't know anyone using Windows Original OS.
Fred Zamby, 14 May 2008 @ 1:39pm
Police access to your PCThe Police have a simple way of forcing any PC to hibernate. This allows them to capture EVERYTHING for the logged in user. They arrest you (Based on any trumped up lie eg your competitor saw porno on your PC(s)) then they can get automatic search warrant then they hibernate your PC's and take them for checking which takes up to six months during which time they hack anything they want to. Please sign and support: www.un1503petition.com its to protect the vicious attacks by the SS, police and judiciary on children (eg abduction by state authorities of targeted "weak/vulnerable" mothers / parents to satisfy Goverment Adoption targets for one and there are many more deplorable acts ocuring.
K. Davis, 1 Jul 2008 @ 8:02amI do
K. Davis, 1 Jul 2008 @ 8:10amFor some reason so many people say vista is bad, I have had it on a Dell Inspiron Pc and never had any problems that I did not cause myself, such as accidentally shutting down programs myself. I just keep it constantly updated.
Christopher, 2 Jul 2008 @ 1:19am
Nothing new...There already exist tools like this for XP that were not developed by Microsoft. Nothing new.
brandon, 25 Oct 2008 @ 12:25pm
Re: Nothing new...if you have possession of the computer, all you have to do is copy the files onto another computer and take ownership. who cares if they have that usb key, if the cops knew what they were doing, they wouldn't even need it.
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proofinlife, 15 Nov 2008 @ 12:15amI think people are focussing on the issue of "Now there's a way in, now the coppers can find what I'm doing!!!". It was most likely never built for that reason (I can't say it wasn't, cause I didn't design anything), but my best guess for what it IS used for could be this:
Government forensics has a lab situated in the FBI headquarters where technicians are paid ridiculous amounts of money to retrieve important "National security" information. If a laptop was retrieved in Texas, it would have to be sent out via secure delivery to HQ, then let the techs take their sweet time doing their jobs.
This key wasn't made to place fear, but to save costs and improve efficiency and cut out the long process of sending out and confirming, they now have the power to take the PC back to the station, and plug in a key and get what they want.
But key point, they need reason of confiscation to take it, so if you're not a security exploiter, media pirate, or any other "internet-illegal" position, then you have nothing to worry about.
However, the probability of hackers gaining access and making this technology into line-level processes, then we definitely have something to talk about.
Kweezy57, 20 Nov 2008 @ 10:32am
100th comment100TH COMMENT WHOOOO!!!!!
DA, 27 Nov 2008 @ 12:44pm
Right First TimeWhen the USB device is plugged in, it initiates a connection the drive at the OS level. At this point, code is exchanged and regardless of the screen saver, the device now has access to the file system. (esp if it says "i'm a mass storage device" to Vista) Anything that is open and readable on the user's system is now open to any code that the thumb drive has managed to insert into the system through the standard USB loading protocol.
Pretty much if you have USB on your system, you are hosed.
ttt, 10 Dec 2008 @ 9:24pmif a criminal wanted to view data over the net and not get caught they could use knoppix on a computer with no hard drive so this type of set of tools is useless in some situations and with out the hard drive data isp data is useless
and is this set of keys remotely exploitable i am absolutely sure it is and if not as part of a Trojan it is still useful for criminal activity
any time a backdoor is written for any purpose it is bad news this will get out to the hackers no doubt and they will at the very least pair it up with a remote admin/user hack and be able to download all your private data with ease as ms did half the work for em ms should be doing everything in their power to make the system uncrackable not a open book for the select few
but micro$oft has a very big market share that they use as a product in it of the system so they can enforce computing rules of the rich and powerful and we all buy the product we have a problem of vendor lock in
for those who fear terrorist do you the theft of your bank records being used to found terrorism yes banks use windows as well as you and me
john wright, 10 Apr 2009 @ 3:47pm
windowsI wonder why Bill Gates named it Windows. Now he's got most of the world peeping through windows. It also makes me wonder about a lot of things.
Mike (profile), 12 Nov 2009 @ 1:49pmThis is James Bond stuff. Stick the USB in, wait a minute, and all the computers encrypted files are now yours for the taking. Why not upload some remote access software so you can just take the info dynamically?
Krevco (profile), 12 Nov 2009 @ 2:02pmThis is James Bond stuff. Stick the USB in, wait a minute, and all the computers encrypted files are now yours for the taking. Why not upload some remote access software so you can just take the info dynamically?
Now you're talking! That's not even James Bond though. That's Bourne Identity stuff!
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Unanomiss, 13 Jul 2012 @ 12:51pmAlright, first off, windows 7 and 8 are built off the same source as Vista, they are one and the same. Leave it to Mr Gates to sell you something that sucks, then fix it and add a new name and sell it to you again. Anyway, These keys dont matter, there are great programs in existance already that circumvent all windows security including passwords and ALL pc history including but not limited to keylogging and internet history, deleted files ect. I have written my own "USB Key" just for shits and giggles. You know how us Red Hat users feel about Mr. Gates and his lackluster security.
Keith Nine (profile), 16 Aug 2015 @ 3:01pm
Re: Bill Bott, "famous Microsoft authority" mocks "conspiracy buffs".http://www.zdnet.com/article/sorry-conspiracy-buffs-theres-no-windows-back-door/
Bill eventually got discredited and proved himself both a fraud and a http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sycophant&defid=148137.
http://www.washingtonsblog .com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html


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Instructor's idea of workouts made AF recruit uneasy
Staff Sgt. Donald Davis was the kind of basic training instructor young recruits like — he pushed them to perform at their best, but he didn't yell at them.
So when Davis offered to help one of his young recruits with her lagging running pace, she happily accepted.
"I was grateful that he was willing to help me out," the woman testified Thursday at a hearing to determine whether Davis will become the latest instructor at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to face sexual misconduct charges.
The airman, who graduated from basic training in July, grew increasingly uncomfortable with his prescribed workout regimen, which required her to meet him behind closed doors in his office every 45 minutes, she said.
One workout ended with an awkwardly long hug. Then, Davis told her that he needed to take measurements of her hips, waist and chest to track her progress.
"I felt it was strange due to the fact that he had just taken a measurement of my waist the night before," she testified. "He said to get a better measurement, if I wanted to, I could lower my pants."
Davis is accused of abusive sexual contact with one trainee and having a sexual relationship with another trainee. If tried and convicted on all charges, he would face a maximum prison term of more than 11 years.
Davis is among 25 basic training instructors at Lackland who have come under suspicion of misconduct with trainees since December. So far, five instructors have been convicted and six have been charged.
Investigators have identified 49 victims, all of them women. Thirteen have claimed that they were sexually assaulted. The remaining cases involve sexual relationships and unprofessional conduct, some of which did not include physical contact.
An Air Force investigation released Wednesday found that command failures, a lack of oversight and understaffing fostered a, insular culture at Lackland that permitted the abuse.
Davis' accuser, who's now a reservist and a schoolteacher, is not being identified because the San Antonio Express-News generally does not name victims of sex crimes.
She testified that, after Davis took her body measurements, she told him that she was uncomfortable with him touching her. She walked out of his office and he never called her back for another workout.
After that, Davis started singling her out for mistakes and shouting at her, she said.
"He would also come up close to me and get really close to my ear and tell me how bad I was doing," she said.
Shortly after he threatened to kick her out of basic training, she reported him to a staff sergeant.
The woman's best friend in basic training, Aubrey Tournade, gave a similar account.
Tournade said that after her friend reported the troubles with Davis, both women were removed from their units in retaliation.
A master sergeant called both of them to his office and chastised them for terrible attitudes, which was the first time they had been criticized.
"He said, `Your flight leaders have serious problems with you,'" Tournade testified. "He told me you might have some potential here, but you chose really poor friends."
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The friends ultimately were allowed to graduate, but not before they said they were warned by two supervisors in their chain of command to keep quiet about the matter.
The hearing is set to continue today with testimony from a woman who investigators say had a sexual relationship with Davis. After testimony ends, the investigating officer, Maj. Jeffrey Biller, will decide whether to recommend that Davis face a court-martial.


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Proteins are macromolecules made up of 20 different amino acids, compounds that help control hunger and build muscle, skin and more. Eleven of the acids are nonessential, meaning our body produces them, so we don't need to get them from food. The other nine are essential—we can't make them and must replenish our supply from one of two camps:
Complete proteins contain all nine of the essential amino acids and include animal products (meat, fish, dairy, eggs) as well as soybeans and quinoa.
Incomplete proteins, as the name suggests, fall short. "Nuts, seeds and grains are all missing or low in the same essential amino acids," says Diane McKay, Ph.D., assistant professor of nutrition at Tufts University. "Legumes, fruit and veggies all lack other essential amino acids." Combine one food from each incomplete group and, voilà, full package. In an ideal world, you'd have complete protein at every meal to ensure all nine essential amino acids are there when you need them. But that's not always possible or even necessary. A quick rule of thumb: If you have only incomplete proteins at one meal, have complete ones the next time you eat.
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2 tablespoons peanut butter
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Spread on 1 whole-wheat English muffin. Adds 6 g protein
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1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal
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Cook with 1/2 cup skim milk; add 1 sliced medium banana. Adds 5 g
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1 oz walnuts
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Yep. Eating 15 g to 25 g protein within an hour of strength training has been shown to help build lean, fat-burning muscle and speed recovery. "I recommend food over shakes and bars, which can be high in sugar and fat," says Manuel Villacorta, R.D., a spokesman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). Try 6 oz nonfat plain Greek yogurt (18 g).
Do high-protein, low-carb diets work?
First, let's set the record straight. Diets such as Paleo and Atkins aren't as high in protein as many people believe. For instance, Paleo advocates getting up to 35 percent of calories from protein, which aligns with the USDA guidelines for women. And although the diets may result in weight loss, it's often because you cut back on refined carbs, like cake.
They have downsides. For starters, certain diet plans such as Atkins give free rein to eating proteins that are saturated fat–heavy (bacon, butter). "And some severely limit entire food groups such as grains and fruit, which nixes key nutrients such as fiber and is difficult to sustain," say SELF contributing experts Stephanie Clarke, R.D., and Willow Jarosh, R.D.
So skip them. Aim to get 25 to 30 percent of your calories from lean proteins, an amount shown to help maintain lean muscle and rev metabolism, says Stuart Phillips, Ph.D., of McMaster University. And lay off junk food. But you knew that.
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Soon after sinking your teeth into a steak or eggs or beans, the protein starts to break into amino acids, which are then distributed throughout your body, reassembled into new proteins and put to work on...
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Many nutritionists advise eating 1.1 g to 1.2 g of protein daily for every 2.2 pounds of body weight (68 g to 74 g for a 135-pound woman). Many of us do get about 70 g daily, the USDA reports, "but we tend to eat the majority of it at dinner, and our body can use only 15 g to 30 g at a time to build and repair tissue," says Roberta Anding, R.D., a spokeswoman for AND. The rest is burned for energy or, too often, stored as fat. Clarke and Jarosh suggest divvying up protein throughout the day and aiming for about 20 g at meals and 6 g to 12 g in two snacks.
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The DNS Changer Working Group took its DNS servers offline earlier today, and the world didn't end. Isn't that great?
As PCMag.com reported earlier today, many of the Internet Service Providers configured their own substitute DNS servers and are continuing to work the problem. Major Internet providers like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, and others, said they saw minimal impact from DNSChanger. In fact, Comcast received a "minuscule number of calls," a spokesperson told PCMag.com.
"The FBI is out — and ISPs are in," Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, wrote on the News from the Lab blog.
Having the ISPs step in makes a lot of sense. The internet providers "have to start taking action earlier" to protect consumers as in most cases, the users are relying on the ISP for their DNS needs, Rapid7's Marcus Carey, told Security Watch. "ISPs should be proactive on this front, because at the end of the day they will have to field the calls when users complain that their Internet has gone black," he said.
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The decision to continue with the shutdown of the FBI servers appeared to be a popular one, according to results of an online poll conducted last week by F-Secure and posted by Hypponen. When asked whether the FBI should be authorized to continue operating the alternate DNS servers after July 9, an overwhelming majority, or 87 percent, said no. It was "time for 'tough love.' Stop enabling the weak," the respondents said.
That doesn't mean companies can get complacent, as many of these infections were side effects of more serious malware infection, Dan Brown, director of security research at Bit9, told Security Watch. Companies should monitor their networks for DNS traffic going to the expected IP addresses and be aware of what kind of traffic is entering and leaving their environment.
The latest statistics show about 50,000 impacted systems in the United States and 250,000 worldwide. Italy, India, Germany, and Great Britain round out the rest of the top 5 countries with DNSChanger. These five countries account for about 117,000 infected machines.
What Did We Learn From DNSChanger?
The actions taken by the FBI to ensure victims don't lose internet access are unprecedented, Dave Pack, director of LogRhythm Labs, told Security Watch. The coordination between the FBI and private sector companies, funding to maintain alternative servers, and the public outreach to notify end-users, showed the government was taking post-takedown repercussions into account, he said.
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Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts.
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts.
The former president was taken from a military hospital where he was recovering from liver surgery and a heart condition and put on a plane, according to his lawyer Mauricio Berreondo. He said the plane was bound for New York, where he is also charged with embezzling $1.5 million in foreign donations intended to buy school library books in Guatemala.
"I blame the government for what could happen to him," Berreondo said. "Portillo is sick and there are several pending appeals."
He said one appeal had to do with establishing the state of Portillo's health.
Deputy Foreign Minister Rita Claverie said that both the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court had notified the government there are no pending appeals in his case.
Portillo, who was Guatemala's president from 2000 to 2004, was taken out of the hospital on orders of Interior Secretary Mauricio Lopez Bonilla, Berreondo said.
An Associated Press reporter saw a small white jet carrying Portillo, 61, dressed in a black sweatshirt take off late morning local time.
"This decision is an important affirmation of the rule of law and due process in Guatemala," the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala said in a statement. "We commend the Guatemalan authorities in the strengthening of rule of law and the fight against organized crime and corruption."
In brief remarks to a local radio station, Portillo said his extradition was illegal.
"This is a kidnapping," he said.
Portillo was turned over to U.S. authorities in the same week that the high court threw out a genocide conviction in another high-profile case against an ex-president, former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. That decision that has been widely questioned and criticized, including in the United States.
For Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank, Portillo's extradition comes as a relief to the government.
"It comes at moment when the government is under a lot of criticism and this is something they can point to as an example of them being serious about fighting crime and adhering to the rule of law," Shifter said.
Guatemala has been struggling to build a credible justice system, including with the help of a U.N.-sanctioned team of international prosecutors.
For Oscar Vasquez, director of the non-governmental organization Citizen Action, Portillo's extradition shows the difficulties the country's justice system is facing.
"As in the case of genocide in Guatemala, the justice system shows signs of chaos, confusion and disorder, given that we no longer know who is right, the state for extraditing him or his defense lawyers," Vasquez said.
"It seems that we are left to rely on the justice of others," he added, referring to the United States.
Human rights activist Claudia Samayoa said the extradition comes as a distraction away from the case of Rios Montt. Samayoa was one of about 2,000 people who marched Friday to protest the annulment of Rios Montt's conviction.
"Extraditing him today was to distract people from (Rios Montt's) trial, which has been in the news for weeks," she said.
In the U.S. case, Portillo allegedly deposited the money in Miami and transferred it to a Paris account in the name of his ex-wife and daughter.
Guatemala's highest court upheld the extradition last August after it was granted by former President Alvaro Colom as he left office in 2011.
Portillo has called the proceedings a political reprisal by powerful Guatemalan businessmen and the U.S. government for not bending to their interests. He has also said the court agreeing to his extradition constitutes a violation of his human rights.
Upon leaving office in 2004, Portillo fled to Mexico, where he began working as a financial adviser for a construction materials company.
He was extradited from Mexico to Guatemala in 2008 to face embezzlement charges at home.
Portillo was found not guilty in 2011 in Guatemala of charges that he stole $15 million from the country's Defense Department during his presidency.
In 2010, police captured Portillo at a beach preparing to flee Guatemala by boat, a day after U.S. authorities charged him with laundering money.
While running for president in Guatemala in 1999, Portillo acknowledged he had killed two of his former students while a professor in the Mexican state of Guerrero in 1982.
He said the killings were in self-defense and he fled the state because he could not get a fair trial. The case has since been closed, and he can no longer be charged in those killings.


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SACRAMENTO (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks' challenging West Coast road trip was made more difficult by a flu virus that spread throughout the team.
It also made this victory even more significant.
Kyle Korver scored 22 points, reserve Lou Williams had 21 and the Hawks beat Sacramento 112-96 on Friday night for their ninth consecutive win against the Kings.
Al Horford had 20 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta after missing the last game with the flu bug. Horford watched the Hawks lose to Golden State on Wednesday while lying in bed in the team hotel.
"This trip has been a little frustrating, but we felt winning tonight and going home with a 2-2 record solidified this trip," Horford said. "I was sluggish tonight and it took a while for me to get going, but I tried to bring as much energy as I could. This was a very solid win for us."
Atlanta shot 55 percent, including an 8-for-15 performance from beyond the arc, while recording a season-high point total. The Hawks outrebounded the Kings 42-37 and had 24 assists.
"We can be a real up-and-down team, we know that," Atlanta coach Larry Drew said. "We preach moving the basketball. We emphasize sharing the basketball and we did a really good job of that. Guys were finding each other all over the place and when we play like that we're a fun team to watch."
The struggling Kings were outscored by 14 in both the first and third quarters. They held a players-only meeting after their fourth consecutive loss.
"We just put it all on the table. We talked about what we needed to do and what it's going to take to help this team get better," center DeMarcus Cousins said. "We were all in a bad mood."
Josh Smith had 19 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and Jeff Teague scored 13 of his 15 points in the first quarter for Atlanta, which starts a stretch Monday of seven of eight games at home.
The Hawks carried an 86-70 lead into the fourth quarter and maintained at least an 11-point advantage the rest of the way.
"This was a strange trip with everyone getting sick," Williams said. "We had guys not playing, guys playing sick, but we persevered and got through it. We wanted to break even on this trip before we headed back to Atlanta to get prepared for our homestand."
Korver went 5 for 5 from 3-point range. He also had seven rebounds and a rare two-handed dunk on a breakaway.
"I was open and my teammates were finding me," he said. "I struggled early in the season, but I've been in a good rhythm lately and my shot is starting to feel right."
Jason Thompson had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Kings. Marcus Thornton had 17 points, Tyreke Evans finished with 14 and Aaron Brooks scored 13.
Cousins returned after he was suspended the previous two games for a verbal altercation with San Antonio TV analyst Sean Elliott. Cousins, who was whistled for a technical foul in the third quarter, had nine points, 16 rebounds and seven assists, but missed 11 of 15 shots.
"He was rusty, he has been out of rhythm for two games," Kings coach Keith Smart said. "Sometimes you come back and you're probably being hard on yourself, trying to get out of a slump. We're having a very rough time and it's not fun for anyone."
Ahead by 12 points, Smith had a dunk, Horford hit two free throws, and Ivan Johnson scored from close range, increasing the lead to 98-80 with 7:55 left in the fourth.
The Hawks squandered a big second-quarter lead, but came out strong in the third, outscoring Sacramento 28-14.
Korver played a key role in a 9-0 run in the third. He began the spurt with a 3-pointer and finished it off with a long jumper, putting the Hawks ahead 81-69 with just over three minutes left in the period.
Sparked by their second unit, the Kings got going with a season-best 36-point second quarter. Brooks was the catalyst, making three 3-pointers and scoring 13 points in helping cut the margin from 18 early in the period to 58-56 by halftime.
NOTES: Evans, who entered the game 1 of 11 on 3-pointers, hit his first attempt in the opening quarter. ... Drew was a starting guard for the first Sacramento Kings team that relocated from Kansas City for the 1985-86 season. ... Kings small forward James Johnson was wearing glasses for the first time this season. The glasses didn't help the poor-shooting Johnson, who was 1 for 7 from the field. ... In a shooting slump the previous five games, the Hawks shot 58 percent in the first quarter and led 34-20 after one.


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