mistake

Ok, so I admit that It was wrong. A week Later Steve Gibson said that in fact it really didn't require those paticular conditions he had talked about to trigger the exploit. It was wrong, but I still think it was a fun conspiracy theory :). There are some things that this simply does not change, however. Microsoft is still the scum of the earth and they certainly don't deserve your money. I know how hard it is to survive in todays world without windows, and I admit that I too, am forced to use their operating system. But the next time you need to write something, think about all the free alternatives out there. Also think about yourself, and stop using that wretched internet browser known as Internet Explorer. Do yourself a favor, and use something else.




Alternatives to Microsoft Word:
Open Office
Writely


Alternatives To Internet Explorer (a must):
Firefox
other browsers



If there is anything I forgot or any open source software that should be mentioned, Don't Hesitate to leave a comment and a plug.

Microsoft and the NSA

I'm sure many of you have heard about this new "exploit" in windows regarding the way they handle metafiles. Then again, maybe you haven't, it allows a windows metafile image to run code on your computer; in a sense, to do anything as if they had physical access to it and administrator privileges. This all occurred if you simply looked at a specially crafted image. A week ago it was patched for newer versions only, even though they said that it had affected them.
To get straight to the point, the way that this vulnerability was made there was no way that it could have been an accident, or just badly designed. Microsoft intentionally put a backdoor in windows. For what purposes we know not.
Steve Gibson, a security expert (aka "white hat hacker" or "good guy"), of "Security Now!" was doing research into fixing the vulnerability for earlier versions, when he realized that there was NO way it could have been an accident and that Microsoft, possibly at a high level, knew of this for many years, since the year 2000 or earlier. The way it is done is that you make a slight change to the beginning of the metafile, (i won't go into full details on this), and then make an error abort, it will jump to the next byte and begin executing it, no matter what it is.
I have done no research about this conspiracy theory, but there is evidence that may bring some of this to light. Steve Gibson himself discounted the NSA because for this backdoor you need to visit a webpage to exploit it, but there may be many, many more backdoors out there that make up for this.
Back in the 80's, when Microsoft made its rise to power and suckered IBM into signing away that Microsoft would be put on every IBM computer, I still find it hard to believe that they may have done that willingly. What I’m suggesting is Microsoft is the NSA's bitch, and that they have been guiding them towards success for the last 20 years, using Microsoft for all of their intelligence gathering needs. They wouldn't need to break any RSA keys, crack anything, cause there were back doors straight into the systems of nearly every computer being used. It makes so much sense that Microsoft has had help in their rise to power all these years...
We may be just breaking the tip of the iceberg as we discover that we are not safe from prying eyes.
I will update when i can...