[67381] in Cypherpunks
RE: WINDOWS NT ????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Oct 5 04:06:24 1996
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 00:44:42 -0700
To: John Fricker <jfricker@vertexgroup.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 05:43 PM 10/4/96 -0700, John Fricker <jfricker@vertexgroup.com> wrote:
>Security in NT can be defeated by any clever, out of work, bored,
>NT device driver author who brews up a stealth device driver replacement
>(perhaps a COM port improvement) that could run amok on the file system or
>basically do anything.
Good point; if you can talk somebody into installing device drivers,
most security guarantees go out the window, and if you can talk
a system administrator (i.e. "the user") into installing unexamined code,
he's lost. And on PCs, users install unexamined stuff all the time.
>Of course, any clever device driver developer is making enough money to
>not be bored nor even consider writing a backdoor into a driver. Right?
Definitely....
# Thanks; Bill
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