full-disclosure - The MSBlast Conspiracy Theory

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From: jeremiah at nur.net (Jeremiah Cornelius)
Subject: The MSBlast Conspiracy Theory

On Thursday 14 August 2003 09:55 pm, Weezer Hutchins wrote:
> This was such a benign implementation of the serious DCOM security risk,
> that my conspiracy theory is ... Microsoft had this worm released on
> purpose in an attempt to get everyone to patch their machines before a
> really threatening version was released.
>

Well,
MSBlast was kludged together poorly enough. That in itself is another 
indicator supporting your theory.

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Jeremiah Cornelius, CISSP, CCNA, MCSE
Information Security Technology
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