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Re: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?
From: Denis Jedig <seclists () syneticon de>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:11:21 +0100
Brooks, Shane wrote:
<snippet> The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that this [setAbortProc procedure] was a deliberate backdoor put into all of Microsoft's recent editions of Windows. </snippet> [...] thoughts?
Nonsense. Even putting my humble opinion about Gibsons "work" aside, assuming that especially Microsoft, while constantly being under close public observation, would ever think of creating a backdoor at all and even putting it somewhere everyone can find and use it, is absolutely absurd.
Denis Jedig syneticon netwoks GbR
Current thread:
- WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor? Brooks, Shane (Jan 15)
- Re: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor? Denis Jedig (Jan 16)
- Re: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor? Steve Friedl (Jan 16)
- Re: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor? Mike Ely (Jan 16)
- Re: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor? Gadi Evron (Jan 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor? Alex Eckelberry (Jan 16)