Steve Szmidt wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 11:21 am, Eben King wrote:
>
>>>Wait... are you saying that they can turn autoupdate on, or that they can
>>>turn your computer on? In many cases (pun intended) the latter's not
>>>true.
>
>
> Hehe, this one is interesting. There are settings that you can modify because
> they are available in the registry. The one I'm talking about is a change
> that does NOT rely on the registry, or any other setting you care to make.
>
> I.e. it's hardcoded. Permanent. Unremovable.
>
> It's also known as a backdoor. A nice little backdoor which only let's MS in
> after they show their certificate. Of course that is protected by the very
> high MS security that we all have come to admire. ; )
>
> Yup, security is job one with MS. They would not put all these machine at risk
> by installing anything less than their BEST. One of these days I'll have to
> throw away my OpenBSD firewall and only rely on MS security. It's just too
> boring with my firewall. I have all ports are closed on both outbound and
> inbound by default, and only let specific traffic leave. And that's not
> really fair to MS. I mean they have invested a lot of money and effort to
> create this secure environment, and here I am just bypassing the whole thing!
> Not cool.
>
> Guess I'm just a shameless, unappreciative user...
Hmm. This makes me want to try an experiment. I should set up a
virtual DMZ here with two sets of two computers in it: one is an
out-of-box Linux distro with an out-of-box Linux firewall protecting it,
and the other is an out-of-box Windows workstation with an out-of-box
Windows server protecting it. Once that's done, I'd leave them alone,
running 24/7. Logging the results could be fun.
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