Plus: pretending that you're on the same page as Microsoft (from a security standpoint) to further your own argument is more damaging than it is beneficial. The entire "binary planting" concept was flawed from the very beginning. If you can drop a binary file on a user's machine - make it an executable and be done with it. There's nothing fancy or innovative about forcing applications to use specific DLLs - script kiddies have been doing it for over 10 years to inject custom code in multiplayer games.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Thor (Hammer of God) <t...@hammerofgod.com>wrote: > I'm curious. Who is your contact at MSFT? Who is it that has told you > they have a "Binary Planting Clean-up Mission" and where do they mention you > as having anything to do with it? > > If you are going to claim MSFT's actions as substantive to your agenda, how > about provide some details? > > t > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ACROS Security Lists [mailto:li...@acros.si] > > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 1:41 PM > > To: 'Christian Sciberras' > > Cc: Thor (Hammer of God); full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk; > > bugt...@securityfocus.com > > Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft's Binary Planting Clean-Up > Mission > > > > Hey Chris, > > > > > I bet Microsoft actually like stating they just fixed yet another > > > severe bug. > > > Zero-day fixing is big business, you know....even if "zero" > > > is past a few "days". > > > > I don't think Microsoft gains much from being able to say they fixed yet > > another bug > > - maybe if it were a bug they found internally and fixed proactively, but > not > > like this. And I'm sure they'd rather be doing something else than > fixing: > > fixing a product costs a lot, and it generates no revenue. > > > > Cheers, > > Mitja > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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