Re: How to launch am attack against all Windows systems?

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From: David Schwartz
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:09

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"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.oqnrk@burditt.org> wrote in message 
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> Windows systems "phone home" for just about every possible reason.

    True. And it's *very* hard to disable and extremely annoying.

> This is effectively a distributed denial of service attack against
> Microsoft (self-inflicted!).  Once the Microsoft-owned systems go
> down, none of them will be able to re-validate their licenses, and
> the whole thing will just implode.  Just sit back and watch (and
> laugh).

    The thing is, none of those reasons have anything to do with 
re-validating licenses. I've got machines running all versions of Windows 
you can imagine on isolated networks with no Internet access at all. I've 
never had a license validation problem except when hardware was majorly 
changed with a 30-day warning.

    Unless you know something nobody else does.

    DS

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