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Re: [News] [Rival] New Windows Vista Crack Exploits UAC

On Fri, 18 May 2007 08:33:28 +0100, BearItAll wrote:

> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:38 +0100, BearItAll wrote:
>> 
>>>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070510/tc_infoworld/88424;_ylt=AmG6tVfakzdyOhladyyKQMYjtBAF
>>> 
>>> That one was sort of an inevitable target, get hold of that and you
>>> effectively have all XP/Vista machines under your thumb. I suspect many a
>>> hacker has spent many hours on this one, the prize to them is too great
>>> to ignore.
>> 
>> Why?  It's a service.  It's publicly documented.  Anyone can use it in
>> their apps.  It's designed to download files over http during low network
>> use times.  In effect, it's wget with bandwidth throttling.
>> 
>> Nobody would have to spend any time on this.  The reports of "hacking" it
>> are just plain ridiculous.
> 
> Updates are not just a basic wget thing at all. If it were there wouldn't be
> any safe updates going on anywhere. There is security involved.

No, there's not.  BITS is not an update system.  It's a download system.
That's it.  There's nothing privileged about it.

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