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Microsoft News Update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-for-the-whole-family dept.

Microsoft news of the past few days: Media Player 9 is the subject of a few articles, including one on its integrated digital restrictions and one on changes in its privacy options. Microsoft is releasing certain API's, and is releasing a service pack for Windows XP, under the requirements of its antitrust settlement with the Federal Gov't. On the downside, code to crash any modern Windows machine with NetBIOS enabled is now floating around the net, and there's been more publicity of the vulnerabilities in Microsoft IIS/SSL.

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  1. Release of API by crazney · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, im not sure about everyone else.. But I know us developers at the WINE project have found the new APIs (documented here) to be anything but useful..
    Well, the register does say "what Microsoft has got in there is a grotesque, badly-documented pile of poo it doesn't fully understand itself." (in regards to the fact that the few new APIs microsoft released doco's on are other useless or all together wrong!.)

    David.

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  2. How ironic by hacker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Does anyone else find it funny that the SMBdie script that is used to supposedly crash Windows machines by sending a specifically-crafted SMB packet... is a Windows executable?

    In the era of security conscious people, running someone else's .exe file is really stupid, even if you think it might be funny.

    And this tool got front-paged on Slashdot. How stupid can you possibly get?