From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 16:18:40 +0800
To: Rich Graves <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft continues to mislead public about Windows security bugs (a bit long, with references)
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At 07:15 PM 1/8/96 -0800, Rich Graves wrote:
>As Microsoft well knows, this is completely untrue. [...]
>
> [...]
>
>Microsoft has not even admitted that this bug in both Windows 95 and
>Windows for Workgroups affects Windows for Workgroups, apparently because
>they have decided not to fix it. 
>
> [...]
>
> We believe that it would be highly irresponsible to release the full
> version of this hack, but we will soon release a crippled
> demonstration-only version 
>
> Is anybody listening?

They will listen if you start to release full uncrippled exploits, after
a reasonable delay.

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