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

From: Seth (seth@hollen.org)
Date: Sat May 26 2001 - 21:26:53 EDT


I find it hard to believe that MS is somehow able to slip some informtion
through the net undetected.
I do beleive they would if they could.
of course you can look at some of their new licensing schemes to see were
they are going

On Saturday 26 May 2001 21:07, you wrote:
> 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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Seth seth@hollen.org

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