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Thursday, May 9, 2002[10:37:07 AM]
Friends don't let friends use Microsoft operating systems.
Just one example today... Bundled -- to leverage their desktop monopoly to beat AOL -- with the OS you get MSN Messenger. You don't have to ever even use MSN Messenger, and it still allows anyone on the internet to take over your computer.
<fud>How would you like a terrorist to use your computer to relay messages, and then have John Ashcroft put you in solitary confinement 23 hours a day for months or years without even charging you with a crime? People with brown skin should not use MS.</fud>
Washington Post: "The attack doesn't happen through the chat client, so as long as you have MSN Messenger installed, if I send you a special URL, I can own you," said Marc Maiffret, Eeye's "chief hacking officer."
© Copyright 2002 john robert boynton.
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