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Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Jim Williams
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.

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Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
Date: 13 Aug 1995 22:27:31 GMT
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