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Microsoft to Publish Blue Hat Findings
An anonymous reader wrote to mention an InfoWorld article about Microsoft's plan to publish some of the findings from last week's Blue Hat conference. From the article: "'Everything was fair game,' wrote SQL Server engineer Brad Sarsfield in a blog posting. 'Hearing senior executives say things like: 'I want the people responsible for those features in my office early next week; I want to get to the bottom of this' was at least one measure of success from my point of view for the event.' The Blue Hat name is a play on the Black Hat conferences, which have occasionally been criticized by IT vendors. The 'Blue' part comes from the color of badges that Microsoft staffers wear on campus." They have descriptions of some of the sessions up on the site for your perusal.
I'm sure the executives started the whipping sessions with the person responsible for allowing SQL Server to function happily with a blank 'sa' password.
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The 'Blue' part comes from the color of screens that Microsoft staffers see on campus.
Someone had to say it, folks!
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I want the people responsible for those features in my office early next week
With quotes like that, it's no wonder Vista's long list of features has been dwindled down to a new Media Player and better video drivers.
the Seattle Inquisition!!!
Moderation in All Things... Especially Moderation - gurutc
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You put on the blue hat - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You put on the red hat - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the security-hole goes.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Now just how do they expect to get Steve Jobs in their office?
Moderation in All Things... Especially Moderation - gurutc
Ok, now Im confused. I thought the current /. theory about delays and feature cancellations in Vista was that the development team were to busy dodging chairs to get any coding done?
OK, it's time to have mercy on you guys who haven't figured it out.
There is no Microsoft.
It's all a MMOG/interactive fiction thing where geeks pretend to be code monkeys in service to the evil empire. C'mon, the Gates was a bit subtle, I admit; you could almost believe he existed. But Ballmer should have clued you in. No real board would hire a guy like that unless they were running a side show and needed a "Wild Man of Borneo".
The coolest part of the hack was when they started sending out boxes of their "product", complete with CDs and manuals (look closely -- a lot of it's just "ipsum lorem"). That was sheer brilliance. I picked one myself as a souveneir, I'm looking at the box up on my book shelf right now, it's very well done. Just the other I had to keep my elderly father-in-law, who was an engineer back in the day and no dummy, from "borrowing" my copy. Boy would he have been surprised.
Oh... God Gad.
You didn't actually install any of that shit, did you?
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I believe Microsoft DOES support 3DES on SSL. My "FIPS 140-1" configurations require it. Look for this key in your windows registry - if you have this key, your SSL does 3DES:
r ol\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\ciphers\Triple DES 168/168
HHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Cont
The Blue Hat name is a play on the Black Hat conferences, which have occasionally been criticized by IT vendors. The 'Blue' part comes from the color of badges that Microsoft staffers wear on campus.
Actually the Blue Hats are a symbolic salute to their employer's greatest technical accomplishment: The Blue Screen of Death