One good thing; it alerted staff to a potential "problem" in security with something relatively harmless, though annoying, proved to be inconsequential. It keeps us on our "toes" so to speak, and it is an unfortunate comment on our "world" condition that we have to do this "expletive deleted" at all. :)
-- Curtis Delzer <[email protected]> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:39:04 -0500 Chris Skarstad <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, the beta process ended when the full window-eyes 9 > was released a couple days ago, so no harm was done there. Really, all this > individual did was insert a bunch of scary words into an app update. Folks > either found it annoying or disturbing, probably a bit of both, but no actual > harm to any systems was done. That doesn't mean that someone might not try, > which is why AI Squared is beefing up security. Good idea there. > > > > > > > > On 1/16/2015 1:41 PM, Max G. Swanson wrote: > > The bad news is of course that our insular world of sightless computing > > has apparently been invaded by some mean-spirited hacker. GW Toolkit, as > > an app on practically all systems running W.E., is certainly a good target > > choice if there's ill intent. > > > > The good news is that the leak has been plugged, and the whole program is > > running somewhat smoother with the updated toolkit installed. Perhaps > > this effort sabotaged the whole beta process. > > > > Hope I'm not opening a can of worms by discussing this subject, as I > > didn't see mention of it in the latest Digest--only in the announcement > > from AI Squared. Of course my reading of the latter half of said digest > > was hampered by some of the usual stop-and-start, and the Browse-Mode-Find > > feature's confusing number-signs with greater-thans during multiple > > searches. > > > > Things are, nevertheless, improving, thanks to the savvy and vigilant crew > > at GW/AI! > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
