Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:38 +0100, BearItAll wrote:
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>>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070510/tc_infoworld/88424;_ylt=AmG6tVfakzdyOhladyyKQMYjtBAF
>>
>> That one was sort of an inevitable target, get hold of that and you
>> effectively have all XP/Vista machines under your thumb. I suspect many a
>> hacker has spent many hours on this one, the prize to them is too great
>> to ignore.
>
> Why? It's a service. It's publicly documented. Anyone can use it in
> their apps. It's designed to download files over http during low network
> use times. In effect, it's wget with bandwidth throttling.
>
> Nobody would have to spend any time on this. The reports of "hacking" it
> are just plain ridiculous.
Updates are not just a basic wget thing at all. If it were there wouldn't be
any safe updates going on anywhere. There is security involved.
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