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Does your company include security back-doors in its software?   [Edit]

Survey period: 1 Aug 2005 to 7 Aug 2005

In light of the recent WGA "by-pass switch" slip-up by Microsoft, does your company include security overrides (by-pass) in its software? (suggested by Doug Troy)

OptionVotes% 
Yes and everyone that works here knows about them.394.73
Yes, but only the IT dept. knows what they are (we hope)364.36
Yes, but only a select few know about them.10612.85
No (unless you count the one I put in)15318.55
No. We don't want the headaches49159.52



 
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Paul Brower1-Aug-05 1:31
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Vikram A Punathambekar1-Aug-05 3:12
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Cristian Teodorescu1-Aug-05 4:29
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jonathan151-Aug-05 5:09
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe1-Aug-05 5:10
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Vikram A Punathambekar1-Aug-05 17:17
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe3-Aug-05 4:10
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peterchen4-Aug-05 4:40
peterchen4-Aug-05 4:40 
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
other than that working on security stuff is challenging in a pretty unique way

Absolutely!
Assembler skills and a little bit of paranoia are sure helpful here.




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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe4-Aug-05 8:30
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Almighty Bob1-Aug-05 16:50
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Mike Dimmick3-Aug-05 0:54
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Fred Kreppert3-Aug-05 8:19
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Troberg4-Aug-05 21:39
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Kacee Giger5-Aug-05 5:08
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Jeff J7-Aug-05 12:13
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