full-disclosure - Allchin bug p-o-c.

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Message-ID: <200310071726.h97HQvSn002558@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Allchin bug p-o-c. 

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:02:13 EDT, Andrew.Berges@...restre.com  said:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm rather new to this list, and I think I may have missed some of the
> background on this - could someone bring me up to speed as to what is
> happening here?

Allchin said under oath that Microsoft didn't want to release the APIs, because
some of them were so crufty that to release them would jeopardize national
security.

Ever since then, people have been looking for what API he was talking about.

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