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Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD

Posted by timothy on from the no-such-thing-as-perfect-security dept.

David Gerard writes "Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who'd annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in Windows 7, courtesy the rewritten TCP/IP and SMB2 stacks. Well done, guys! Another one for the Windows 7 Drinking Game."

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  1. Re:First Post by ZekoMal · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What's the second most popular post to make...oh yes:

    You must be new here.

  2. Re:I knew Windows 7 was too good to be true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Allah feels threatened by a stupid rug that makes him a pretty lame deity IMO.

  3. Re:The difference is... by Requiem18th · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MOD PARENT UP

    I have the theory MOD PARENT UP actually works, maybe... next time I have mod point I'll look for MOD PARENT UP

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    But... the future refused to change.
  4. Re:Local? by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I work for one of the biggest companies in the world, and the entire network is on one, giant active directory domain.

    I can ping accross continents baby! Ok maybe not, but I don't VPN anywhere, and I have direct access to file servers all over the world.

    In other words, you don't know shit.

    When your company is the size of mine, you have these things called "contracts" with various ISPs that basically give you a LAN connection (not a VPN, an actual LAN link) accross continents and over seas. They can do this with cool technologies called "switches" and "vlans". Of course there is subnetting and such as well, as in all good networks.

    Seriously, even when you VPN, you are using an actual physical link to get from one place to another. What is stopping a company from making a deal with the ISP that gives them a dedicated line cross-country? In fact this will involve many ISPs, but the idea is pretty simple. It's expensive as hell, but worth it when the scale is big enough.

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    Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller