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Re: Thai Pirates Crack Microsoft's New Windows System
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Tue Nov 13 18:57:06 2001
Message-Id: <200111132249.fADMnE721051@sparkle.generation.net>
To: "John R Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Adam Fields <fields@surgam.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "13 Nov 2001 12:54:46 EST."
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:49:14 -0500
"John R Levine" says:
> I imagine there's more than one large corporation that told Microsoft
> that any operating system that insisted on exporting the configuration
> data of all 300,000 of their corporate PCs through the firewall was
> not something they were going to buy.
I remember reading something about how the DoD wasn't going to allow
XP because of this very problem (although I'd have to assume that
there are other security vulnerabilities that are far worse), but now
I can't find the reference.
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