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01/13/2006 Archived Entry: "WMF vulnerability is a backdoor?"

Steve Gibson of Gibson Research has been examining the Windows WMF vulnerability, and has tentatively concluded that it is a backdoor deliberately inserted by someone at Microsoft. We won't know if it was a rogue programmer or an official action until we get a look at Microsoft's source code, and when that happens Satan will need a snowmobile. (Hat tip to Groklaw.)  —brad