full-disclosure - Re: Recent claims that windows update is broken

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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:40:43 +0900
From: 夜神　岩男 <supergiantpotato@...oo.co.jp>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Recent claims that windows update is broken

"Journalistic integrity"? Such anachronism, Thor; and quite a surprise 
coming from you.

This is the Internet circa 2011 + Humanity circa Anytime.
Nothing more can be expected from a bunch of unwashed monkeys with 
keyboards lacking the talent to truly create.

On 09/10/2011 10:20 AM, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> I don’t think anyone actually believed this; It sounded more like Joro
> was trolling on behalf of the blog monkeys J
>
> It really does make me wonder if the
> publish-whatever-we-see-posted-elsewhere-while-abandoning-journalistic-integrity-to-drive-ad-clicks
> model is actually working for these people. I suppose it must be,
> otherwise these guys wouldn’t be selling off little pieces of their soul
> with each article.
>
> t
>
> *From:*full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk
> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dan
> Kaminsky
> *Sent:* Friday, September 09, 2011 3:09 PM
> *To:* Georgi Guninski
> *Cc:* full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> *Subject:* Re: [Full-disclosure] Recent claims that windows update is broken
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com
> <mailto:guninski@...inski.com>> wrote:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/07/diginotar_hacker_proof/
> "I'm able to issue windows update," he [Comodohacker] wrote.
> "Microsoft's statement about Windows Update and that I can't issue such
> update is totally false!"
>
> The original Comodohacker statement is at: http://pastebin.com/85WV10EL
>
> Is this true?
>
> For the record, no. Windows Update doesn't just depend on
> WinVerifyTrust, it also calls CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy with the
> CERT_CHAIN_POLICY_MICROSOFT_ROOT flag, documented here:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa377163(v=vs.85).aspx
>
>
>     --
>     joro
>
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