From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Although he overstates it somewhat I find I agree with most of his points.
Right now it seems MS is trying to milk the consumer for all they can. I'm
one of those people who actually read and honor the license agreements. I
am beginning to reconsider as the terms are becoming more one sided and
support is becoming non-existent. I've almost given up on the free MS
resources as worse than useless.

When I install Linux on an old Compaq server I noticed it was well lets say
slow. Seemed to have a lot of disk IO. I thought it was paging so I did a
search on google. In less than 5 minutes I had the answer ( Compaq Bios
telling Linux it had 16 Meg of memory) and solution. I've never found any
answer from the MS sites that fast.

Although I'm not as privacy conscious as you are I do NOT want ANYONE going
through my machines. I do not want any changes made that I do not know
about and approve.

Bob Lewis

"geo"  wrote in message
news:3dcac54e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> This came in my email today, I don't know where it originated but.. well
> you read it for yourself and see what you think. Keep in mind that this is
> not some guy running Linux writing this, this is a windows user.
>
> Geo.
>
> ------------------
> Serious Win2K bug!
>
> ... and Mickysoft didn't even release a warning.
> This post might be old news for some, but I haven't heard anything about
> it yet. I saw it being mentioned in a computer magazine so I decided to
> post it here.
>
> Thanks a fucking lot Billy-Boy, for Trustworthy Computing, Palladium,
> .NET, expensive licensing schemes and all the other evil inventions you
> still have up your sleeve. How about trying to get the worst security
> holes and law enforcement back doors out of your operating systems
> first, before you try to rape us with your new crap that nobody asked for?
> Win2k includes EFS (Encrypting File System), which allows you to
> encrypt files stored on your hard drive. Now it's official, EFS doesn't
> work.
>
> Imagine you store sensitive data on your computer and rely on EFS to
> secure it. Now your computer is stolen or confiscated. Your in deep shit
> if the encrypted data contains incriminating stuff or business secrets
> that have to remain secret.
>
> By using one of the freely available password changers which allow you
> to gain access to a W2K box whose password was "forgotten",
an attacker
> will gain full access to ALL the data, encrypted or not. Fucking great!
> Thanks a lot for NOT warning us, and hiding information in some obscure
> technet articles.
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/
> topics/efs.asp
>
> Microsoft is the enemy. People that still refuse to realize this need a
> serious reality check. They are not only in bed with the entertainment
> industry conspiring to make you pay out of your ass for every song you
> want to hear and every movie you want to watch by implementing digital
> rights management, they are also bending over for every fucking law
> enforcement agency. Who knows how many more back doors, spyware and
> serious bugs were intentionally introduced...
>
> If nobody stops them we all will soon be unable to build our own boxes,
> upgrade machines or use software and files not certified by Microsoft
> and their partners in crime.
>
> You bought some cheap hardware? Too fucking bad, it won't run because
> the manufacturer didn't pay 6 figure sums to have this hardware certified.
> You want a new computer? Sure, you can have anything you want as long as
> it comes from Dell, Gateway, IBM or HP.
>
> You want to install an old hard drive from your last machine containing
> lots of .mp3 and divx? Sorry, you only are allowed to install
> manufacturer-certified hardware. But that's not that bad, these file
> types wouldn't work anyway on your new computer!
>
> Want to install software, e.g. MSOffice you legally bought with your
> last computer? Nope, won't run. But for an additional fee of 139.99 we
> can upgrade your software to the newest version. Unfortunately it will
> refuse to work without you having broadband and being online, sorry. And
> if you use that crack you found online which lets you use your old
> software on your new machine M$ will remotely wipe it from your hard
> disk without asking you for permission! If you lose data, tough shit.
> Read the end user license agreement! You accepted it, you cannot sue
> them, you cannot hold them responsible! Good luck wrestling in court
> with a company which currently owns 40 billions in cash and still
> doesn't pay dividends to its stockholders.
>
> You are a software developper who wants to provide users around the
> world with free software which is updated weekly?
>
> Good luck, I'm sure M$ et. al. will do anything they can and then some
> to certify your software, e.g. the secure, fast and fully W3C compliant
> browser to anyone for fucking free!
>
> Fuck them, now we can buy mobile phones running on windows, and they
> will be able to communicate with your fridge and the coffee grinder
> coming out next year which will run on windows too. And after 8 years,
> when they stop supporting the operating system you have to upgrade,
> because the hardware just don't cut it anymore.
>
> /end of rant.
>
>

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