At 02:21 PM 20/01/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
If your going to put a backdoor you would want to put it in something that is remotely exploitable like a network service or something. You don't want to have to socially engineer the user of the computer to either download your attachment or visit a website. That's too much work especially if its supposedly a conspiracy to be able to access any computer.
His argument is it's a backdoor to allow MS to run code on your computer when you visit their webpage, even if the browser is completely locked down. I think it's a very reasonable argument, and seems to fit with MS's practices. Rather than fixing bugs and security problems, they spend time and money on poorly thought out copyprotection.
T
