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GDI Vulnerabilities: An Open Letter to Microsoft

Posted by michael on 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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  1. how appropriate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    when i clicked read more, it said: Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    1. Re:how appropriate... by Shulai · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You got the first post and complain? Shame on you!!! :-P

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  2. fg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fg

  3. mod me down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    since i am a frost pist

  4. Don't go for pretty software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ever heard the phrase "Don't Judge a Book by it's cover!" I didn't think so, otherwise you might actually take a chance on software that works, but isn't pretty.

    It irks me to no end when I spend I beefload of time on a project, put it on sourforge, and then get a bunch of emails in my inb0xen that are all like: D00d, cool proggy, but the icons aren't high resolution. It don't jibe with my desktop man. I'll pay you as soon as I ya do that, okay.

    Yeah, why don't you over and use that pretty software then, jacko. Sure, it crashes every two minutes and is slow as a constipated mule, but it shore looks pretty.

    Give me a break. Software should work. Not look pretty.

  5. jews did wtc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.peoplesprimary.com lol hax

  6. Worse than useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kinda like his labrea tarpit...

  7. Re :peoplesprimary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    Do not go to the peoplesprimary.com site.

    Last time I looked they had a javascript in place that automatically posts the contents of your "Copy" buffer to a remote server... and then displays it for everyone to see. Not good.

  8. An open letter to Tom Liston by daVinci1980 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Please stop treating your customers like idiots and give us information; information that we can use.

    Please look up what the semi-colon is used for; it should be used in place of a period for emphasis.

    Apologies for my grammar correction, but is seriously irks me when someone decides to send *an open letter* to a company and doesn't check for grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. Or does OpenOffice not support these features? :-p
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  9. Another Open Letter I sent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I sent this to their webmaster:

    I find it somewhat humorous that on this page:
    http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/security.m spx

    the photo you use is that of a Macintosh PowerBook G4 15" (with the Apple logo on the back of the screen Photoshop-ed out), on a page about security summits and programs. While I don't want to get into a pissing contest about which OS is more secure, it's mildly humorous to find a Mac being used to advertise Microsoft's security, even if it is subtle.

    Respectfully,
    Andy Ringsmuth



    I'll try and keep an eye on it and see if they decide to change the photo.....

  10. Re:It's actually a tough job even on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Always have to bring Linux in somehow...

  11. Re: Your quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have you ever seen a LESS tolerant group of people than liberals aka 2004 Democrats? The so called party of tolerance liberal democrats are the least tolerant most racist people in the US today.

  12. Re:Rules for this story by phatlipmojo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who modded this tripe up?

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  13. About your sig... by orcrist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Want to see Kerry's changing positions on Iraq, in his own words?

    For a more analytical look with some of Bush's words thrown in for context look here.

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