Re: An interesting twist on WGA

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:42:23 -0700, "Kerry Brown"
<kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=838&tag=nl.e539

Bound to happen sooner or later.

MS are in a big hole with WGA and stuff like this is not going to help
with the current class action against them, the lawyers can now use
this exploit / malware to argue security flaws same as they did in the
Sony case.

I predict the death of WGA and WGA Notification sometime this year.

8-)

Jonah
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Relevant Pages

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