____/ dapunka on Friday 06 July 2007 17:30 : \____
> On 6 Jul, 14:59, BearItAll <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> > Vista to receive at least 2 updates on Tuesday
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>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>> > | Listed as a Moderate threat, the update for Windows Vista is described
>> > | as an 'Information Disclosure' issue. The .NET update is listed as
>> > | Critical due to it's 'Remote Code Execution' threat.
>> > `----
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>> http://itsvista.com/2007/07/vista-to-receive-at-least-2-updates-on-tu...
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>> > WARNING: Windows Media Player may CRASH Neverwinter Nights 2!!
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>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>> > | Here's why... and this is also why I wanted to post this warning: The
>> > | latest versions of Microsoft's Windows Media Player have been doing
>> > | something very bad. They've incorporated a sub-routine that Microsoft
>> > | has been very quiet about and it has to do with something called
>> > | "Digital Rights Management" (DRM).
>> > |
>> > | [...]
>> > |
>> > | DO NOT OPEN UP ANY AUDIO FILES FROM YOUR GAMES IN WINDOWS MEDIA
>> > | PLAYER. Use some other (and preferably older) MP3 player instead.
>> > | If you open them in WMP, you'll risk ruining your game's audio files.
>> > | I learned this the hard way... but you don't have to.
>> > `----
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>> >http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=573006&foru...
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>> > Whether it's true or not, you decide.
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>> See, told you so. Also do not let Windows Media Player touch the files on
>> your MP3 players, it will go through the lot and any that it can not prove
>> are genuine copies that you are licenced to play it will make them
>> unplayable on any device.
>>
>> In fact the only music that is safe on a Vista machine are those that you
>> have already put onto CD/DVD, because it can't write to those.
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> In that case, it'd probably melt the disk. Or something.
That brings to mind cases from the distant past where, IIRC, they sabotaged
components in this way (IBM was a victim, I think). In any event, with Vista,
they have the ability to lock up/disable hardware. This was in Gutmann's
paper.
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