thisweekintech.com — Microsoft has patched the WMF vulnerability in Windows 2000 and XP, but in his research for a fix for Windows 95/98/Me Steve has come up with a blockbuster. It is his considered opinion that the WMF vulnerability could not have been a mistake. It was an intentional backdoor inserted into Windows by Microsoft for reasons unknown.
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No this current posting is, somehow, better. You should digg this one instead. The first posting on the subject was rubbish.
nubtardJan 13, 2006
Well. I've got my tin foil hat!
zhackwyattJan 13, 2006
Regarding grcsucks.com/, I don't have any respect for someone where their sole purpose is to slander and discredit someone else.
sandrinoJan 13, 2006
In order to have a claim against Steve & Leo, Microsoft would have to show what damage it has been done to them. By suing they would attract attention to the issue and thus cause way more damage than Steve & Leo could have ever done. As popular as Security Now may be it does not reach as many people as the New York Times or the evening news. Only us geeks listen to podcasts like Security Now. And a lot of those people listening already know that Microsoft has awful security. Where is the damage?You don't seem to realize just how hard it is to win a suit in court. Just because you are pissed at someone doesn't mean you can win a lawsuit. You have to have some legal basis to sue someone. Proving slander is not easy and lawsuits are expensive. Besides what can Microsoft expect to gain from Steve and Leo? They are not millionaires, they don't have deep pockets. Microsoft doesn't need or want their money. What Microsoft wants is for this issue to go away fast. They ARE NOT going to call any attention to it. They would cause more damage to themselves by suing than by sitting there and hoping it goes away.If expressing an opinion, even an erroneous or stupid opinion was slander, Fox News would have been sued out of existance long ago.
jedi0utkastJan 13, 2006
Duh! this is not news..
silentspyderJan 14, 2006
UNIX cores won't save you from ignorance.I am only an entry level tech geek. I'm not going to watch or listen to every tech related program out there. I already listen to TWit, Diggnation, DLTV, KFI, Systm, and Inside the Net. I get a decent amount of security stuff from KFI and if there is a big mac security problem it'll be on Digg, and then I'll download that particular Security Now site. I can't believe I'm stooping down to respoding.But the main reason I'm commenting is a change of mind. Maybe people are buring the story because it's an opinion peice. I didn't think of it that way. I think of this story as an discovery of security hole.
deadkennyJan 21, 2006
"Windows back door rumor is bunk" story from The Register...<a class="user" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/21/wmf_fud_from_grc/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/21/wmf_fud_from_grc/</a>Once again Steve Gibson is responsible for spreading panic, fear and lies through his own inflated opinion of his security expertise.