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Re: recent RPC/DCOM worm thought
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:19:02 -0400
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:20:22 CDT, Kerry Steele <ksteele () securitypenetration com> said:
If Microsoft were as evil an empire as they are perceived to be, then wouldn't they already have the backdoor to your system to apply the patch anyway? If so then why go throught the pain in the ass to write a shotty worm and draw bad publicity to the company?
If their backdoor worked as well as their front door, the backdoor patch would fail, and then they'd have to face the derision of: 1) The original bug 2) Having put in a backdoor 3) Getting it wrong. If they release a worm to do it, they only have to suffer (1).
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