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When is a flaw really a back door?

By Ryan Russell
How quickly do your vendors release patches? If they take 15 years, does that
mean the problem was an intentional backdoor?
There are, to be sure, some still-outstanding questions regarding how the now-infamous Windows
Metafile flaw affects the Windown 9x/Me platform (as discussed my fellow columnist, Susan).
One bit of controversy that arose over this problem since our last newsletter deserves
clarification here.
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