Hi Kurt,
Kurt Wismer to Paul Walker, 27 Apr 97 20:40.
 KW> like anyone would really trust anything that said microsoft on it
 KW> anyways...
Personally, not really, or at least not much more than anything else. 
owever,
a large number of people /would/.
 KW> from it... and if, as you say, the signatures allow for repudiation (i
No, that's not what it is (I think). A developer got hold of the Microsoft
signature (whatever it is, I haven't investigated in great detail), and 
igned
his applet. This applet, because it carried a "trusted" signature, wasn't
queried with the user before doing whatever it did (which in this case was
something harmless). MS weren't best pleased, but it did highlight the 
problem.
This is events as I understand them - you'll probably get something different
from MS, but...
 KW> say... isn't active x itself a product of microsoft?
Partner to DirectX, I believe, yes :)
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