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Re: [News] Windows Vista Drops ANOTHER Feature

__/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Thursday 08 June 2006 14:30 \__

> On 2006-06-08, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
> something concerning:
>> __/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Thursday 08 June 2006 07:06 \__
>>
>>> On 2006-06-08, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
>>> something concerning:
> 
>>>> Judging by that last statement, maybe they should just call it quits and
>>>> abort Vista altogether.
>>> 
>>> They can't now. Fester went to Wall Street to tell them the troubles
>>> the world sees at One Microsoft Way are a mirage. They're trying to
>>> tell investors that they've been wasting money on other ventures
>>> (shorting current products at the same time) for a good reason. No way
>>> could they get away with shipping nothing now.
>>> 
>>> Maybe they can glue a Vista label on some old 3.11 floppies.
>>
>>
>> ...But 3.11 has some severe TCP/IP bugs that can allow anyone on the
>> network to crash it (BSoD) remotely...
> 
> Yeah. And?

Well, Windows Vista (AKA Windows XP Service Pack III) is said to be much more
capable. You can remotely control it rather than just crash it. This opens
the door to more enjoyable activities such as 24//7 despatch of SPAM, or
distributed attacks on your least favourite Web sites. More recently, data
theft, data trade, or ransom for access to data have become rather hip
amongst the script kiddies. Let the stories keep on rolling in...

Best wishes,

Roy

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