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WMF Flaw not a Backdoor
koro666 writes "In a blog post, Mark Russinovich from SysInternals responded to the allegations made by Steve Gibson labeling the flaw as an intentional backdoor. It seems that the hype was about Steve's discovery that the code would only be executed if the size of the metafile record was deliberately tampered with, which is not the case. The technical details are explained in his post."
5th post... i mean ... 5th psot
Didn't we already get the story about how it is a legacy problem from the days Windows didn't have multi-user hooks into the printing subsystem?
And after the George Takei story as well. I'm saddened and ashamed, and a little bit titillated.
Mark Russinovich has some very comprehensive skills with respect to computer security.
Dude, must get LAID!
Just joking, his post is lucid and well argued. Although, the conspiratorial cynic in me wants to believe he's wrong.
Ok, this is being mean, and it's not really a dupe, but you already reported that it's not a backdoor, although it was only a mircosoft response that time, not from sysinternals. Anyway, I make that 3 today for CowboyNeal. The First impressions count and the 20 years of viruses were both also dupes.
Doing a search for my full name, I come out with 1,040,000 hits. My brother got 1,710,000 and my cousin with a different last name got only 32,000. My cousin is probably more well known than my brother and I because he's in a band and his brother plays college football.
Apparently Google results have more to do with the commonality of the first and last name more than anything else. Articles written about you probably help a little, though.
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?