Re: [SLUG] Re: Windows XP RC2 (fwd)

From: edoc (kd4e@arrl.net)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 14:43:56 EDT


Among counselors and shrinks the old saw goes "Just because you are
paranoid doesn't mean that someone isn't out to get you!"

Doc

> The Windows community has begun to wake up to the fact that their XP
> boxes are 'phoning home' -- I posted this is the Security Focus
> Vulnerability Devel list earlier today.
>
> -- Russ
>
> There is the old saw about "Never attribute to malice that which
> may be explained by ignorance" ...
>
> I do not believe that the people paid by Microsoft to sit around and
> devise a method to implement .NET are ignorant. The old saw is
> inapposite here.
>
> ... not being paranoid, but not making assumptions. either ...
>
> -- Russ Herrold



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