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To: Christian Engineer Mass
The worst backdoor is having USB keys automatically run executables. How can I ever trust a company that does these things?

That's the way the Iranian nuclear bomb program was derailed: a virus was spread on USB Flash drives that only infected specific nuclear engineering software for Windows computers with specific Arabic tags! So, in this instance I'm kind of glad that capability WAS there... It set back their nuclear program by at least two years I understand!

Incidentally, my understanding is that does not happen on Macs. Shhhh. Don't tell any one.

5 posted on 12/17/2010 1:36:16 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Swordmaker

Yeah - I appreciate that, and so did everyone else. It was totally cool, but it’s a one-use trick on the international level, because everyone is wise to it now.

In the meantime, all the poor saps have been getting infected with every possible virus and will continue to do so, creating massive botnets that spam and commit financial fraud for their owners, so I have to do cartwheels just to get my bank balance


7 posted on 12/17/2010 2:09:21 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (Leftys who zone in on Palin miss the point. America's not about single figures. That's for NK/Cuba.)
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