[dinasour]

Source is a pdf transcript where the authors describes why he believes that the recent windows wmf vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor, not a bug.

[Yo-Yo]

Aww, Bill would never do that. Would he?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If this wasn't Steve Gibson, I'd say, "poppycock".
But I place a fair amount of weight behind anything he has to say on the computer software front.

[ConservativeMind]

My understanding from my reading elsewhere is that it was put in there on purpose years ago simply because it allowed a program to end a transmission via dial-up modem when taking too long to download an image.

It no longer really matters to allow the code execution within a data stream because so many have broadband.

[antiRepublicrat]

I just listened to the whole thing. I am a programmer, and it sounds plausible. He defends his position very well. However, Gibson is known for false alarms (raw sockets, anyone?), so I'll have to wait before believing this until Gibson finishes his analysis and we hear the reaction from other credible researchers.