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Re: Scarfo "keylogger", PGP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Oct 16 15:35:49 2001

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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:45:21 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, schneier@counterpane.com,
	'Peter Fairbrother' <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
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"Trei, Peter" wrote:
> Windows XP at least checks for drivers not signed by MS, but
> whose security this promotes is an open question.

Errr ... surely this promotes MS's bottom line and no-one's security? It
is also a major pain if you happen to want to write a device driver, of
course.

Cheers,

Ben.

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