Update: Microsoft admits it knew about, didn't patch, bugs
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| In both cases, Microsoft told the researchers that it would not fix the flaw
| because it considered users safe.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=windows&articleId=9071660&taxonomyId=125&intsrc=kc_top
This can ruin an election too (see bottom ref).
Spyware 'scammer' sued over PC pop-up invasion
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| The alleged supplier of some of the net's most hated malware titles has been
| sued by Washington state's attorney general.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/spyware_purveyor_sued/
Not a problem with Macs and GNU/Linux.
Days ago:
Windows Vista immune to remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Jet Database
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| Windows Vista users, count your blessings. Though the operating system may
| be flawed, sluggish in some areas and have issues with installing the new
| service pack; it is not vulnerable to a new flaw exposed in the Microsoft Jet
| Database Engine which could allow remote code execution.
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http://vista.blorge.com/2008/03/22/windows-vista-immune-to-remote-code-execution-flaw-in-microsoft-jet-database/
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
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| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
| a complex environment]...
|
| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
|
| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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