full-disclosure - Steve Gibson smokes crack?

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Date: Fri Jan 13 20:24:23 2006
From: toddtowles at brookshires.com (Todd Towles)
Subject: Steve Gibson smokes crack?

Stan wrote:
> Ordinarily I'd argue, but its hard to when we find out 
> Microsoft knew about the bug for a long time and made a 
> concious decision not to patch it even though they knew it 
> could lead to a system compromise.

Also, Microsoft must have made the concious decision to have it not work
by default on any pre-Windows 2000 machine? What kind of old secret
government backdoor is that...when it doesn't even work. 

-Todd