GDI Vulnerabilities: An Open Letter to Microsoft

Posted by michael on Monday September 27, 2004 @06:34AM from the your-call-is-important-to-them dept.

UnderAttack writes "Tom Liston, the guy that brought us the LaBrea Tarpit, wrote an open letter to Microsoft regarding the GDI JPEG vulnerability, and Microsoft's scanning tool for this vulnerability, which he calls 'worse then useless'. Tom, who wrote his own scanning tool, ends his letter with 'Please stop treating your customers like idiots and give us information; information that we can use.' Like Tom explains, the official Microsoft scanning tool misses a lot of vulnerable DLL's installed by third parties, and Microsoft fails to explain if these libraries are a problem or not."

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Re:er, by Zambarra · 2004-09-27 06:41 · Score: 0, Flamebait

er, by creating a fucked up homogenous environment which encourages or rather beats 3rd parties into writing crappy software?
Re:No Warranty Implied by Zebbers · 2004-09-27 06:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You dumbass. MS SELLS THEIRS. As A PRODUCT. His is a free gift, a tool. There is a fundamental difference.
Re: Your quote by ConceptJunkie · 2004-09-27 07:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You aren't willing (or able) to back up your claims? Come clean, are you really Dan Rather?

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