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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...
- --
Steve
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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