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Vista Hackers Get Busy
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's long-awaited Windows Vista release Thursday for business customers will get more than just the passing attention of network administrators. That's because hackers will be eagerly waiting to do what hackers do best: start some mischief." Some folks on the Black Hat set got a sneak peek at Vista earlier this year, so they've had time to prepare.
Get busy livin' or get busy dying...
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Patch the holes rather than expoiting them. I know the whole chaos mentality but I can't see the difference between viruses and taking destructive advantantage of exploits and setting fires just because you can. Sorry I've been a victim of virus attacks and I'm very careful. Why not do something contructive with your skill and life? I was joking about patching the holes, although it'd be much appreciated, but why not put the energy into writing a challenging program? Destruction is for destructions sake. It's a sad thing when your goal in life is to make millions miserable. You aren't attacking Microsoft half as much as the users. It's an annoyance to Microsoft but it's often devastating to the end user.
Boy, you sure showed him, he must feel REALLY stupid now!
-Red
Guns don't kill people, "with glowing hearts" kills people.
M$ say that Vista will be their most secure/stable/[Insert adjective here] Windows Operating System ever... Every single time they bring a new one out it's the same claims. I remember installing Windows 95 from floppies on an old 486 with either 8 or 16mb RAM. The propaganda messages which were displayed during the install process (remember, they're bombarding me with propaganda AFTER I've bought (read 'acquired') the OS) assured me that my computer would 'be faster and more reliable'. It wasn't my first time installing Win95 and I knew that this was a load of rubbish, the computer was much slower than it had been with DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11, but that isn't really a surprise. Of course we all know that 95 crashed every few minutes too so that's another count on which they were wrong. With Windows 98 we heard the same thing and again took a performance hit, and again it wasn't exactly stable. Then I was amazed when I read similar messages upon installing XP, FASTER, faster than what, a snail with a bad hip? Of course, in the long run I'd quite like to see M$ stuff Vista up (and stuff the users around too), might get people looking in the FLOSS direction.
Well the new office building is getting ready to open and the building inspectors are getting ready to do what they do best. Except in this case if the inspectors find any load bearing beams they'll losen whatever bolts they can find in an attempt to collapse a couple floors.
pssh, I've been starting mischeif and messing with vista until it screamed for a little while now...
It's not -1 Flamebait! It's +5 Funny. You just didn't get the joke...