[54044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Dec 9 19:14:04 2002
To: "Hunter Pine" <hunter@compuhelp.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 01:13:37 +0100
In-Reply-To: <6DE347C18AF1CC41A01BC9A4BE71F6D9242537@zeus.compuhelp.com> ("Hunter
Pine"'s message of "Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:41:58 -0500")
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"Hunter Pine" <hunter@compuhelp.com> writes:
> As much of a flame magnet as this post may be, I'd actually like to
> commend MS for their security efforts on Windows XP.
"Simple File Sharing" doesn't look to great, I'm afraid. Apparently,
quite a few people manage to create a share with public write access
when activiting it.
> MS can't push it, or there'd be yet another lawsuit.
Read the EULA. Microsoft will push it, but only if it's not *your*
security which is in danger, but the security of the *content*
*providers*.
Nice asymmetry, and it shows where we are heading.
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Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/
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