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Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack?
From: eric williams <nfobro () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:48:59 -0500
On 1/13/06, Todd Towles <toddtowles () brookshires com> wrote:
Stan wrote:Ordinarily I'd argue, but its hard to when we find out Microsoft knew about the bug for a long time and made a concious decision not to patch it even though they knew it could lead to a system compromise.Also, Microsoft must have made the concious decision to have it not work by default on any pre-Windows 2000 machine? What kind of old secret government backdoor is that...when it doesn't even work.
I think I follow you here, I don't think I agree with the conscious decsion part tho'. I think the design of the WMF supported the record types that any vendor could have access to via the GDI, what was at play, afaict, is that you either had to have a renderer that was flawed and could be leveraged from M$ or a third-party vendor. I think the 'flaw' was there by default, but possibly no means to leverage it without a properly crapped up 'viewer'. M$, of course fixed that problem later by providing a default backd^H^H^H^H^H viewer. :) -e
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Current thread:
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack?, (continued)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? eric williams (Jan 13)
- RE: Steve Gibson smokes crack? Peter Ferrie (Jan 15)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? Georgi Guninski (Jan 14)
- Re[2]: Steve Gibson smokes crack? blad3 (Jan 14)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? Georgi Guninski (Jan 14)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? Stan Bubrouski (Jan 13)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? Byron Sonne (Jan 14)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? eric williams (Jan 13)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? Stan Bubrouski (Jan 13)
- Re: Steve Gibson smokes crack? Stan Bubrouski (Jan 14)