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Article #760Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
From: William Rini
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 01:23
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 01:23
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But the reality of the situation is that any program that makes an
outside connection can be accused of the same thing, the only
difference is there is no evidence that any other company has ever
tried it.....ooooppps I forgot, there isn't even any evidence that MS
has ever tried it either. But because some people are sooooooo
paranoid that MS might collect some information about them, they go
off on wild joyrides with the truth and completely ignore facts (the
facts of course are that several publications have verified that the
only info being sent is the info the RW asks if it can send).
danielrg@smartlink.net wrote:
>This wis not the issue. The question is if *ONE* person in the company
>says yes, does the Wizard access everybody else's Computer's via the
>network they are on? If it is at all possible, it doesn't matter if MS will
>or will not use it to violate the Network's security. The issue is that it
>CAN be done, and the company has to worry about some hacker finding
>a way to utilize this hole. Of course that Hacker just might be named
>Bill...
billman@centcon.com William Rini
The Syndicate http://www.centcon.com/~billman/syn.html
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.interserv.net!usenet From: billman@centcon.com (William Rini) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 01:23:44 GMT Organization: InterServ News Service Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4092i1$mpl@data.interserv.net> References: <4006km$4os@questor.org> <adtDCuMxJ.8yq@netcom.com> <408lj3$889@frodo.smartlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip162.centcon.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82