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When is a flaw really a back door?

Ryan Russell

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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