From: "Robert Comer" 

>(no patches in December, merry f**king christmas, we own your ass)

It does bother me big time, I was being sarcastic.

- Bob Comer 


"Geo."  wrote in message news:402abf98{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:402a4320$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > 5 months, they sat on a remote code execution exploit for 5 months..
> > doesn't
> > > that just give you a warm fuzzy?
> >
> > Why yes it does.
>
> Article on it today on wired
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62239,00.html/wn_ascii
>
> "Microsoft, which learned about the flaws more than six months ago from
> researchers, said the only protective solution was to apply a repairing
> patch it offered on its website. It assessed the threat to computer users
as
> "critical," its highest rating. "
>
> [...]
>
> "This is one of the most serious Microsoft vulnerabilities ever
released,"
> said Marc Maiffret of eEye Digital Security of Aliso Viejo, California,
> which discovered the new Windows flaws. "The breadth of systems affected
is
> probably the largest ever. This is something that will let you get into
> Internet servers, internal networks, pretty much any system."
>
> [...]
>
> Researchers at eEye discovered the problems last July and agreed to keep
> quiet about them until Microsoft could fix them. Maiffret complained that
> the delay between eEye's discovery and Tuesday's public disclosure by
> Microsoft was "just totally unacceptable" because Windows users were
broadly
> vulnerable during the period.
>
> --------
>
> for 6 months Microsoft has had a backdoor into all the windows systems on
> the planet.. Wasn't that like the theme to a movie or something?
>
> Geo. (no patches in December, merry f**king christmas, we own your ass)
>
>
>

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