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Quicken: Does Intuit have a back door?
Posted on November 11th, 2008 No commentsA Moscow-based password-recovery vendor today accused Intuit Inc. of hiding a backdoor in its popular Quicken personal finance program that gives it — and perhaps government agencies — access to users’ data files.
Intuit called the charges baseless, and said that although there is a way to unlock Quicken’s encrypted data, it’s only used by the company’s support team to help customers who have forgotten their passwords.
In a statement released today, Elcomsoft Co. Ltd., a Russian maker of password-recovery tools, said Quicken versions since 2003 have used strong encryption designed to foil hackers. But those editions also have a backdoor that unlocks the encryption with the 512-bit RSA key that Intuit controls.
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AT&T and Verizon -head to head
Posted on November 11th, 2008 No commentsAT&T just scooped up Centennial Wireless and that gives them a big roaming advantage in Indiana and Ohio plus some parts of Michigan. Verizon is buying Alltel and that will help them in SW Michigan plus a bunch of other areas. It is the epoch of the big boys and they are buying all the smaller players to get spectrum and coverage in areas that they are not well represented. It is going to take something like this to get 3G and 4G nationwide. However, will prices go down? I doubt it.
My brother has an iPhone and it is all we can do to avoid becoming involved with that phone. Here is a guy that just started using email a couple of years ago and is semi -computer literate. Now he has the toy everyone wants but doesn’t not want to pay the recurrring monthly 3G fees. That is where I am. I would like to have Internet on the road and email too but I will not pay $99 per month to have that. If I was not retired then I might spring for the $ but as it is I need the $ for other things.