full-disclosure - Re: Vista Reduced Function mode triggered

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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:40:48 -0500
From: Larry Seltzer <Larry@...ryseltzer.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Vista Reduced Function mode triggered

>>if you cut a vista's internet access after it's been activated, does
it go to reduced mode because of not being able to phone home? 

It just can't be that simple. There has to be more to what happened to
the guy. Lots of computers are offline for several days at a time, it's
inconceivable that they didn't test that.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer@...fdavis.com 

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