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Article #56Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
From: Matt Costanza
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 08:20
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 08:20
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In article <8k9Y6ji00YUtQHNLhp@andrew.cmu.edu> Samuel John Kass <samkass+@CMU.EDU> writes: >It would be a good hack to write a piece of software that sends lots >of bogus information to the Registration Wizard server, skewing all of >Microsoft's data. "Yeah, a billion people seem to be using AutoCAD >all of the sudden..." > --Sam Sam, You should read some of the post to Alt.2600 There is a few that have already come up with hacks to do just that. Have not heard how Microsoft plans to deal with this. Most people in the industry would place this type of activity under the "Network Security" blanket. My worst nightmare is Microsoft holding seminars on how they beat the hackers and the phone phreakers.. Ech.. Regards, -- Matt Costanza MattC@Diablo.Sps.Mot.Com Motorola Inc - Information Systems - Site Networks and Computing. IRC Nick - Menacer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!moaner.sps.mot.com!mattc From: mattc@moaner.sps.mot.com (Matt Costanza) Newsgroups: comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.powerpc Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola Date: 8 Aug 1995 08:20:17 GMT Organization: Motorola MCTG/MMTG Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4076o2$1jc@talos4.sps.mot.com> References: <adtDCuMxJ.8yq@netcom.com> <400emb$bnj@data.interserv.net> <8k9Y6ji00YUtQHNLhp@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: moaner.sps.mot.com