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Re: Microsoft is facillitating the police-state

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft is facillitating the police-state
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 05:50:10 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 18 May 2007 03:24 \__

> Verily I say unto thee, that Jerry McBride spake thusly:
>> Nomen Nescio wrote:
>> 
>>> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298702.html
>>>
>>> "The index.dat file retains information about recently deleted files and
>>> Microsoft has failed to provide any reasonable explanation. You cannot
>>> provide, what does not exist, there is no genuine reason to retain
>>> deleted files information other than deliberately recording an end users
>>> activities for forensic analysis."
>>>
>>> Microsoft must UTTERLY destroyed. Utterly!!!
>> 
>> Don't forget the ALTERNATE DATA STREAM in NTFS. Stuff goes in there and
>> the only way to get it out is to be Microsoft, Law Enforcement or a good
>> malware writer.
> 
> We have two weapons against MS.
> 
> Alternate data streams and index.dat files ... and the comfy chair.
> 
> We have *three* weapons against MS.

This is fairly old news and they recently got sued over this.

How about this?

James Allchin

'---[ Quote ]
| In relation to the issue of sharing technical API and protocol
| information used throughout Microsoft products, which the
| states were seeking, Allchin alleged that releasing this
| information would increase the security risk to consumers.
| 
|        "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is
|        also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into
|        computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows
|        operating systems, are used throughout the United States
|        Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United
|        States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
`----

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin

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