[42235] in bugtraq
Re: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Denis Jedig)
Mon Jan 16 18:32:53 2006
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:11:21 +0100
From: Denis Jedig <seclists@syneticon.de>
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To: "Brooks, Shane" <SBrooks@orangelake.com>
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Brooks, Shane wrote:
> <snippet> The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that
> this [setAbortProc procedure] was a deliberate backdoor put into all
> of Microsoft's recent editions of Windows. </snippet>
> [...]
> thoughts?
Nonsense. Even putting my humble opinion about Gibsons "work" aside,
assuming that especially Microsoft, while constantly being under close
public observation, would ever think of creating a backdoor at all and
even putting it somewhere everyone can find and use it, is absolutely
absurd.
Denis Jedig
syneticon netwoks GbR
