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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http://seifried.org/security/


----- 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>