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Article #948Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
From: Jim Williams
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:27
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 22:27
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muzok@msn.com (muzo) wrote: > >you really have no conception of network security. If you are suggesting that >there is a program which can automate RW and make it to send the data it >collected, your machine is already compromised. All Windows versions had serial >communication capability so if you can put this program on any of those >machines, they become as bad as win95. To repeat the point again: RW is a >client, not a server and if the user doesn't use it, it doesn't do anything. If >you have a program on your machine which can use RW to send data to somewhere >without user's consent, your machine is already compromised. But first you have >to prove that regular win95 comes with a program like that from MS. > Wrong. This is not a court of law, this is a court of public opinion. It is not those who question Microsoft which have to prove anything -- it is Microsoft and its' defenders who bear the burden of proof. Please prove to me that Microsoft is not creating a huge security hole through which crafty and unethical people (perhaps Microsoft) might be able to pass sensitive information without the user's permission. -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> 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: 13 Aug 1995 22:27:31 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Distribution: inet Message-ID: <40lu8j$lpu@sundog.tiac.net> References: <rzex60-1108950958480001@aprdlmac2.sps.mot.com> <40goeg$qlo@news1.inlink.com> <40iljn$7u8@thetics.europa.com> <40iodk$p3@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <40ipqm$sm0@parsifal.nando.net> <40ir1l$cuo@voyager.internex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)