[svlug] PDF viruses and DMCA

[Rafael Skodlar]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:34:23PM -0000, John Conover wrote:
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>         John
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> BTW, if you have been following CR2:
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>     http://www.jmu.edu/computing/info-security/engineering/issues/ms_pws.htm
> 
> is interesting. The docs for M$ Personal Web server say that it is for
> the Internet, and tell how to set it up. When someone pointed out to
> M$ security that it was vulnerable to CR, they put out an e-mail to
> their security mailing list saying that it was never intended to be
> used on the Internet.
> 
> I have no idea how M$ gets away with kind of stuff. Any other company
> would have a ton of class action litigations.
> 
> Talk about keeping controlling your customer base and keeping them
> stupid ... were people really this stupid before television?

No, they died before they reached 1st birthday.

Seems to me that Code Red did more damage than originaly thought:

http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy.mpg

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Everybody dance now...

Rafael