Re: 'WXP 'phoning home ' (was 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd))

[Seth Kurtzberg <seth@cql.com>]

It has to do with the claim that XP and BSD are equivalent in terms of 
compromising the privacy and security of the user.

If you like, I can send you information about how to filter out messages that 
you don't want to see, if deleting a message is SUCH a problem for you.

On Saturday 14 September 2002 09:59, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> SHUT THE FUCK UP.
>
> What does this have to do with anything *BSD related?
>
> In case you're unclear on this:
>
> SHUT THE FUCK UP.
>
> Thanks and have a nice day.
>
> Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
> To: "Actually davidchr" <davidchr@microsoft.com>; "Christian J Hedemark"
> <chris@yonderway.com>
> Cc: "Seth Kurtzberg" <seth@cql.com>; "Curt Sampson" <cjs@cynic.net>; "Jan
> Wildeboer" <jan.wildeboer@gmx.de>; "Michael W Mitton" <mmitton@hmcon.com>;
> <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>; <tech-security@netbsd.org>;
> <misc@openbsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: 'WXP 'phoning home ' (was 1024 bit key considered insecure
> (sshd))
>
> > If you install ZoneAlarm Pro and enable
> > component checking, you will discover
> > that WXP 'phones home' about many, many
> > things that you do while running IE and OE.
> > What happens is that ZAPro alerts you to
> > each attempt by an OS component to access
> > the internet, at which time you allow or disallow
> > the access. If you disallow access, then all further
> > internet access is disallowed OE/IE until the program
> > is terminated and restarted.
> >
> > What you will see (among other things)
> > is msimn attempting to access the internet even
> > when you're not using OE (the mail program).
> > It is this behavior by WXP (plus the new EULA
> > terms) that has aggravated
> > me to the point that I am now switching to
> > OpenBSD as my internet OS. I will continue
> > to run Windows software, but only on computers not
> > connected to the internet.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dave Feustel
> > http://www.mindspring.com/~dfeustel
> > 260-483-1857
> > ------------------------------------------------------------

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