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    $10,000 to find window flaws

    http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=846
    which would mean that iDefense is going to be paying about a billion dollars a day, everysingle day till they go under..
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    Quote Originally Posted by nn_step
    http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=846
    which would mean that iDefense is going to be paying about a billion dollars a day, everysingle day till they go under..
    Haha thats great, I wonder how many will win the cash.
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    The flaw must be deemed by Microsoft to be "critical" in order for the prize to be claimed
    something tells me Microsoft is gonna use a new name for the critical bugs.
    Else idefense will go bankrupt.
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    Thats great. Instead of hackers wasting their time wrecking people's machines they can now get money for it!

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    ...such as the Windows WMF flaw which we reported on earlier...
    This is a bad one. They can run pretty much anything they want on your computer with that. I went to a website that tried to use WMFs for this purpose and my firewall picked up the attack even before it was initiated.

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    The fact that its made by Microsoft is the first flaw...maybe the only flaw.


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    Quote Originally Posted by leviathan18
    I Found A Bug

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    I think that would fall into the Critical category lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by leviathan18
    I Found A Bug

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    Here's a good one. Boot into windows XP in safe mode, Create and administrator account, delete all other existing accounts change the password and lock comp usa, best buy, and circuit city out of all they're display models .
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    Man i think that could be a great idea. Kind of a proactive stance on slamming the door on bugs if people report them for the cash instead of exploiting them to hack. I can see it dropping the number of virus's out there pretty fast (or at least hope it would).

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    Quote Originally Posted by chew*
    Here's a good one. Boot into windows XP in safe mode, Create and administrator account, delete all other existing accounts change the password and lock comp usa, best buy, and circuit city out of all they're display models .
    how is that a windows flaw?

    anywho, I work at a Best Buy(college job), and if someone did that, I'd just reintall the OS. With that said, there's almost no way you'd have time to reboot and everything without someone noticing, at least at my store. We always have a ton of ppl roaming around the dept. Now, if someone did get away with that, it would make me chuckle a bit.
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    Actually I was so bored last year that I made a Thumb drive that everyone called Satan.. plug it into any windows computer and in less than 20seconds the system is completely ed the second you attempt to reboot it...
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    Quote Originally Posted by nn_step
    Actually I was so bored last year that I made a Thumb drive that everyone called Satan.. plug it into any windows computer and in less than 20seconds the system is completely ed the second you attempt to reboot it...
    Send me files?
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    Would submitting "Windows XP" as a bug make me a winner?
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    Microshaft themselfs is a flaw

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    Quote Originally Posted by nn_step
    Actually I was so bored last year that I made a Thumb drive that everyone called Satan.. plug it into any windows computer and in less than 20seconds the system is completely ed the second you attempt to reboot it...

    lol...computer terrorists at large.


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    I should submit Autoupdate as a flaw.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Hell-Fire
    lol...computer terrorists at large.
    Linux liberators.. big difference
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    Quote Originally Posted by nn_step
    Linux liberators.. big difference
    Very big difference indeed.


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    you guys are pretty hardcore...

    windows xp works good for me, ive been on a hardware firewall since day one, and ive never gotten a virus or any sort of major attack, maybe some spyware, but not too bad.

    Certainly there are flaws, but i dont see making a bug free OS that is as compatible with everything as windows as an easy task.

    Certainly, i dont approve of MS' business practices, but the way things are right now, the average dumb computer user that gets viruses and such doesnt know how to protect themselves, in such, i would hardly qualify them as being able to run an alternative os, which takes far more work then setting up a firewall/spyware scanner/auto update.

    I dunno, thats my take on it though, take it or leave it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Revv23
    you guys are pretty hardcore...

    windows xp works good for me, ive been on a hardware firewall since day one, and ive never gotten a virus or any sort of major attack, maybe some spyware, but not too bad.

    Certainly there are flaws, but i dont see making a bug free OS that is as compatible with everything as windows as an easy task.

    Certainly, i dont approve of MS' business practices, but the way things are right now, the average dumb computer user that gets viruses and such doesnt know how to protect themselves, in such, i would hardly qualify them as being able to run an alternative os, which takes far more work then setting up a firewall/spyware scanner/auto update.

    I dunno, thats my take on it though, take it or leave it.
    well we aren't going for the M$ compatablitity.. which mainly is Spyware and Viruses these days.. we are attempting to make an OS that is so variable and unique that everyone can have a custom Baked OS that fits their tastes perfectly.. But with OpenSourse Compatablity layers we can all use the same apps..
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    Quote Originally Posted by trakslacker
    how is that a windows flaw?

    anywho, I work at a Best Buy(college job), and if someone did that, I'd just reintall the OS. With that said, there's almost no way you'd have time to reboot and everything without someone noticing, at least at my store. We always have a ton of ppl roaming around the dept. Now, if someone did get away with that, it would make me chuckle a bit.
    I do it everytime i go..........And its a fatal security flaw......Win2k isn't prone to that type of hack. Hmm look like you didn't learn then....If your reinstalling the OS. Just as easy as i did it you can undo what i did the same way if you knew about it. Its great fun at lans. Buddy goes to the bathroom Reboot his PC in safemode put yourself as admin setup a screensaver to come on in 1min with password protection that scrolls something embarassing and sit back and watch the fun when he returns.
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