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Forum: In the News
Thread (Discussion): [McKinney Courier-Gazette] Convicted sex offender uses friend's name as alias
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Message 160052 (In Reply to Message 159983)
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on Aug 29, 2005 03:07 PM | Also by Navigatr1
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I was going to mention basically the same thing about Microsoft designing such a system. It would have a bunch of security holes that they wouldn't fix until they are exploited because they think they are not critical. Once they are exploited, then they become critical. Just look at all the holes still in Internet Explorer that they have known about for over a year.
There are still holes in Windows 98, which a lot of people are still using. Microsoft knows about these holes, but since they are not fully supporting that operating system, they are not releasing patches for them because they consider them non-critical. Even if they are critical, the only way you can get the patches is through their update website. Makes it hard to distribute the patch to computers not hooked up to the Internet or with very slow connections. Microsoft plans on discontinuing all support for Windows 98 sometime in 2006. Some of these holes even extended to Windows XP and Windows 2003.
I tried to upgrade one Windows 98 machine to Windows XP, but wasn't able too due to hardware incompatibilities on a Compaq machine. The incompatibilities were real basic stuff like the floppy drive and the parallel printer port. Oh, and the machine would mysteriously turn itself on long after you turned it off. I think this was due to some wake on LAN setting for checking for updates. The person held me "hostage" for 3 days until I could get her computer restored back to Windows 98 with everything previously installed on it. lol.
So, no I wouldn't trust Microsoft to design such a system.
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159841, admin, Aug 26, 2005 09:28 PM [Introduction]
159880, steve, Aug 27, 2005 04:35 PM
159942, orolan, Aug 28, 2005 03:47 PM
159944, orolan, Aug 28, 2005 03:51 PM
159976, Renunciation, Aug 28, 2005 06:35 PM
159983, orolan, Aug 28, 2005 07:12 PM
160007, Renunciation, Aug 29, 2005 12:13 AM
160052, Navigatr1, Aug 29, 2005 03:07 PM
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