Big News?

[Tommaso]

I was listening to the latest edition of the podcast 'this week in TECH', and i was astouded to hear what they are reporting about. If this turns out to be true, then i have to admit that chopin is right to flame microsoft.

If you have 15 minutes free (and fast internet, dial up might be slow to dowload), then listen to this podcast:
http://aolradio.podcast.aol.com/sn/SN-022.mp3

If the podcast is right, then windows might be in for a showdown...


ps: the first couple of minutes of the podcast are kind of stupid, but it gets interesting after they stop takling about hacker vs. cracker.

[void_false]

How about written article? I dont understand spoken English very well %)

[LondoJowo]

I take what Steve Gibson has to say with a grain of salt.

I'm not the only one.
http://grcsucks.com/

[void_false]

Erm... So whats new? Another backdoor was found?

[Tommaso]

Erm... So whats new? Another backdoor was found?

Well, if the microsoft conspiracy theory (they did it on purpose) turns out to be true, then that might go public, and cause some problems for the companie. I doubt that this has happened before. This exploit would have allowed microsoft to install whatever software they wished when you simply went to their website!

Or maybe some opensource developer was hired by microsoft and he inserted the code in there on purpose so that he could infect all of his friends computers, and force them to switch over to linux. Wouldnt that be funny.

[cousinlucky]

As a recent former user of Microsoft on the Internet I Very Strongly Doubt that any " Hole " in Microsoft's software was not Deliberately Engineered in from the start. I can not prove my statement: but I find it just truly impossible to believe that Windows can be so blatantly Porous while Linux is so secure, unless it is all done on Purpose.

[Weedman]

thats it... windows fully sucks.

specific criteria for listing critical updates.. M$ is insane.

its almost laughable!

this IS compulsory listening for everyone on this forums site.

[Tommaso]

I think that we should wait and see what next week brings about, before we make any final conclusions about microsoft, but this is really beginning to scare me.

Hey, by the way were's chopin, i think he would really get a kick out of this one.

[void_false]

Or maybe some opensource developer was hired by microsoft and he inserted the code in there on purpose so that he could infect all of his friends computers, and force them to switch over to linux. Wouldnt that be funny.

Maybe that was Gentoo creator that went to work in microshaft?

[winter]

wheres my fecking ethernet tin foil hat now.

The european and chineese goverments are going to have fun over this.