MS WMF is a Backdoor, Not a Coding Mistake

[Jerry Feldman]

On Friday 13 January 2006 2:26 pm, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> I've listened to Gibson's podcasts for the past month. Every one has
> some kind of ridiculous statement - from associating .cc with Vancouver,
> to stating that he thinks that the WMF hack "might" go back as far as
> Win98 when it was already published that it went back much farther than
> that, to the Windows 3.x days.
I think this might be why Groklaw was very spefic at using his name. 

> He reminds me far too much of a couple of friends of mine who
> want to know so much about technology that they just start making things
> up to get *somewhere*. 
I know the types.

> I have a feeling if I trusted all my security to Steve Gibson, I'd still
> be suffering the same exploit and virus levels I did when I trusted my
> security to an unprotected Windows install.
Kind of like the superuser with an empty password.

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