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Message-ID: <07e601c5eadb$55a85600$2500a8c0@ngssoftware.com>
Date: Wed Nov 16 18:27:09 2005
From: davidl at ngssoftware.com (David Litchfield)
Subject: Database servers on XP and the curious flaw
Hi Eliah,
>David Litchfield wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> I've just put up a paper on a curious flaw that appears when running a
>My intent is not to MS-bash here, but perhaps Microsoft is to blame
>for not educating people about this issue. (If they had, your paper
>would be superfluous.)
>Usually if millions of users are insecure because they don't know
>something, someone is to blame.
To be honest I don't think we're talking millions of people. How many people
at home run a fully fledged RDBMS on their XP systems? Very few I'd guess.
Besides, Simple File Sharing is documented so MS are educating those willing
to seek information.
Cheers,
David
http://www.databasesecurity.com/
http://www.ngssoftware.com/
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