Re: [SLUG] Are you viewed as a computer criminal? (fwd)

From: bill (billt@ifelse.org)
Date: Sat May 26 2001 - 21:07:06 EDT


On Sat, 26 May 2001, R P Herrold wrote:

> From another list -- Written in a low key style, but perhaps
> not low key encough. It might be fun to add specific examples
> and TCPdump traces of a box 'phoning home' , and gin it up
> into a web page ... With a little rework, it would also make a
> nice handout as a 'takeaway' at a trade show ...

with all the MS haters, you'd think someone has tries snarfing packets
from a fresh windows installation to see, but i couldn't find any on the
web.

i did find the ol' backdoor password that was planted by a few microsoft
developers, apparently as a joke, from about a year ago:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2543490,00.html

but that's about it...



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