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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWindows 7 can allow potentially incriminating data (such as child pornography) to be encrypted on a user& 39;s hard drive and make detection by police "impossible", experts in Australia claim. Speaking to News.com.au, Hetty Johnson, a member of the Federal Government, called on Microsoft to act now and make immediate changes. "If this new product gives paedophiles protection to keep harming children I would be extremely disappointed. I would expect the company to take moves to rectify this." Australian law states that authorities can obtain warrants to use a Trojan horse to gain access to a computer& 39;s data, but unlike British law, refusing to decrypt data when requested by the police is completely legal.
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