WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor?

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 13, 2006 @05:36AM from the take-with-a-grain-of-salt dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Steve Gibson alleges that the WMF vulnerability in Windows was neither a bug, nor a feature designed without security in mind, but was actually an intentionally placed backdoor. In a more detailed explanation, Gibson explains that the way SetAbortProc works in metafiles does not bear even the slightest resemblance to the way it works when used by a program while printing. Based on the information presented, it really does look like an intentional backdoor." There's a transcript available of the 'Security Now!' podcast where Gibson discusses this.

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Re:Another? by Carewolf · 2006-01-13 06:29 · Score: 0, Troll

It is pretty well known that most versions of Windows shipped with an intentional NSA backdoor. Microsoft only removed after it was exposed and thereby also hackers could use it.
Re:Another? by Ravatar · 2006-01-13 06:53 · Score: 0, Troll

I salute you, Corporal FUD.