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

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From: toby
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:37

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David Schwartz wrote:
> "Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.oqnrk@burditt.org> wrote in message
> news:11nijiggpqjjaa8@corp.supernews.com...
>
> > 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.

Will anyone else join David in a toast to the Alliance, this fine
Unification Day?

> 
>     DS

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Subject: Re: How to launch am attack against all Windows systems?
Date: 14 Nov 2005 22:37:01 -0800
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