Microsoft's Goal, Security Through Obscurity?

dave cutler writes "Salon has an amusing little wire article claiming that Microsoft argues that were they to provide any greater technical detail about protocols and APIs, it would make computers running their operating system far more vulnerable to cracking attacks." Update: 05/09 13:59 GMT by M : The benefit to customers of Microsoft integrating internet services into the operating system, as well as Microsoft's commitment to security, are exemplified in this article which notes yet another remote root hole in Microsoft's code.

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WTF????

[user32.ExitWindowsEx]

As a result, even non-active Messenger users, or those who access the service using a third-party product such as Trillian, should upgrade to the new MSN Chat control.

TRILLIAN CONTAINS NO MICROSOFT CODE. THIS IS A FLAW IN MICROSOFT'S CODE, NOT THE PROTOCOL.

WTF was the author on?? HTF can he say this? It's blatantly wrong.

p.s. I'm a Trillian user.

Re:yet another ROOT hole in MS Code?

[nukey56]

I don't think 'Administrator hole' has the same feel to it. As long as we aren't using one of their usernames, they're happy, though I'd love to see an official release on a remote domaincontroller hole.