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CNet is reporting
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor

I admit that I believe them. Putting a backdoor into an encryption system is a bad idea, but this brings up a very important point. How do we know?

If I run open source software and I am worried that there is a backdoor in an application, I can look at the source and find out. When you run a closed source application, there is no way you can tell.