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The Real Joke (Sacrificing liberty for convenience)
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| 08/06/2005
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Posted on 08/06/2005 11:08:47 AM PDT by Prime Choice
TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: digitalrights; drm; invasionofprivacy; microloth; microsoft; mpaa; personalcomputers; riaa; sacredcowburgers; scb; vista; windowsvista
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To: Paul C. Jesup
Hacker love challeges, they would prefer to go up against Windows Vista that older OS's because it is the newest OS on the block. Yes, but if some money were indirectly filtered to them from Microsoft, they might hack the targets Microsoft wants them to hack.
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posted on
08/06/2005 1:04:45 PM PDT
by
supercat
(Sorry--this tag line is out of order.)
To: supercat
Yes, but if some money were indirectly filtered to them from Microsoft, they might hack the targets Microsoft wants them to hack.
Only an idiot would do such a thing. It would cross the line from question business practices to criminal internet terrorism. And when the hackers talked, and they will, it would create such a scandal that the stocks would nose drive and there would not be company left when the class action lawsuits (from the customers) and the feds were through with them.
To: Prime Choice
Just read the commentary. I'm sure there's even more...but this alone is enough to make me consider tossing the ol' computer when it finally breathes its last, and going back to hand-written missives for communication and books for reading.
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posted on
08/06/2005 1:13:20 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
To: Paul C. Jesup
Only an idiot would do such a thing. It would cross the line from question business practices to criminal internet terrorism. And when the hackers talked, and they will, it would create such a scandal that the stocks would nose drive and there would not be company left when the class action lawsuits (from the customers) and the feds were through with them. I would think Microsoft could work out enough levels of indirection to be basically untraceable. Either that or release enough information on some obscure overseas web site to allow any 15-year-old script kiddie to break into things and not bother to pay anyone.
Or else, simply wait for some weakness to be found in part of the system that's "protected" against alternation as part of Microsoft's licensing-enforcement scheme.
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posted on
08/06/2005 1:15:17 PM PDT
by
supercat
(Sorry--this tag line is out of order.)
To: Prime Choice
The end Justifies the means.I just don't no what the end is.
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posted on
08/06/2005 1:15:49 PM PDT
by
Boazo
(From the mind of BOAZO)
To: supercat
I would think Microsoft could work out enough levels of indirection to be basically untraceable.
"Untraceable" to hackers... That is an oxymoron... LOL!!
To: Prime Choice
EGADS!!!! I had no idea. My hubby is in the IT industry, and after watching him curse over his Microshaft computers I decided to buy a Mac. While I was happily using my new ibook he was agonizing over his "ME" operating system. It's pretty bad when DOS is more user friendly than one's current OS, lol.
These days I'm happily using my Powerbook G4 with Spotlight, Dashboard, iTunes, etc, and it is almost heaven on earth, heehee! Microsh!t products are NOT welcome! I can't wait to send my husband the URL for this thread, Prime Choice. Your posts are always a great read, but this one is a real eye opener for me.
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posted on
08/06/2005 1:44:34 PM PDT
by
Reborn
To: Paul C. Jesup
"Untraceable" to hackers... That is an oxymoron... LOL!! Have hackers managed to crack manilla-envelope-full-of-cash net? I wonder what sort of method they use?
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posted on
08/06/2005 2:13:07 PM PDT
by
supercat
(Sorry--this tag line is out of order.)
To: supercat
What happens when Microsoft decides to leak just enough details of its internal workings to allow people to write malware that takes advantage of undocumented behaviors, but not enough details to stop them? The unknown "what-if" conspiracy....
call me WHEN it happens.
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posted on
08/06/2005 3:16:26 PM PDT
by
The_Victor
(I'm adrift, my tagline just snapped)
To: supercat
Have hackers managed to crack manilla-envelope-full-of-cash net? I wonder what sort of method they use?
You can backtrack dollar bills by their serial numbers to the last bank that had them.
But what you are suggesting is on the same level of lunacy as those nutcases who say Bush caused 9-11. It's insane on several levels
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