It was in the homeland security press:
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=5789
Hmmm, does it sound fishy that the government wants you to patch up your Windows immediately? Is it some ploy to install "monitoring software" on your computer so the government can track what you are doing? Oooo, the conspriacy! It could be, it may not be - I go to Windows Update and download the updates anyways. If an update is important enough to be announced by the U.S. government, then it must be pretty important. Then again, I haven't lost faith in democracy like so many others.
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| he Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is recommending that Windows Operating Systems users apply Microsoft security patch MS06-040 as quickly as possible. This security patch is designed to protect against a vulnerability that, if exploited, could enable an attacker to remotely take control of an affected system and install programs, view, change, or delete data, and create new accounts with full user rights. |
WHY IS THE DHS SOOOOO CONCERNED ABOUT THIS 'FLAW', THIS TIME ONLY? I thought that the most interested one would be Micro$oft. And you, of course. But comming from the DHS this is nothing but weird and strange.LoL. You kids are funny.
Think about it; if the DHS wanted to get into your system, do you seriously and with a straight face think they'd need to have M$ create a security pacth to give them a back door?
That's just retarded.
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LoL. You kids are funny.
Think about it; if the DHS wanted to get into your system, do you seriously and with a straight face think they'd need to have M$ create a security pacth to give them a back door?
That's just retarded.
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Edit your post changing from the plural "you kids" to singular. There was only one folk who said something about invasion.
And yes, both M$ and DHS can install malicious software into your system. The WGA itself is a spyware. It's just a matter of if they want it or not.Yet another advantage of open-source software: you know what you're installing. (Or you can at least find out.)
Yeah... The government dosn't need you to install something to monitor your computer. They have that capability already - the fact that you're on the internet means that you can be monitored by them. 
Stop being conspriacy nuts. If DHS wrote and published the patch, I would be leery, but since it comes from Microsoft, it's sooooooooooo much more trustworthy ... From some of the hearings I have seen on cspan of late, I wonder if they even have the intelegents to creat a patch since they do not even seem to know how to send and recieve emails. Whos to say that any security patch any of us have downloaded from Microsoft isnt already tanted.
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| From some of the hearings I have seen on cspan of late, I wonder if they even have the intelegents to creat a patch since they do not even seem to know how to send and recieve emails. Whos to say that any security patch any of us have downloaded from Microsoft isnt already tanted. |
Kind of like your spelling. 
Seriously, this is just funny. Funny to think the gobment needs MS's help to spy, and funny to think MS would even cooperate with them in doing so.Yeah sorry about the spelling, | Quote: |
| Kind of like your spelling. |
was a long day eyes kinda crossed, and agree it is funny to think gov needs help, well they do but in other ways. | poet wrote: |
Yeah sorry about the spelling, | Quote: | | Kind of like your spelling. |
was a long day eyes kinda crossed, and agree it is funny to think gov needs help, well they do but in other ways. |
Agreed, they need help. Or perhaps they're beyond help.i go by the old saying don't download anything from someone you don't trust!!!!
Do You Trust Bill Gates and George Bush?
And just whom, may I ask, is going to patch the Department of (White) Homeland Insecurity?
I hope we don't have to wait for Micro$oft to develop the patch - it will take forever. Unless the patch also protects DRM software, of course.
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| Department of (White) Homeland Insecurity? . |
Quoted for posterityI wouldn't worry too much about the DHS if I was you guys.
I moved back here to the UK in Jan after 7 years in MI, and then 3 in Ontario and you guys over there should be glad of the freedoms you do have.
Over here in the UK, it's becoming so much like the old USSR used to be, it just isn't funny. If only the Patriot Act and DHS were the only things to be concerned with....
Here, you're on CCTV practically from the moment you leave your front doorto when you come home again. Recently, it was discovered that local councils were actually bugging the trash bins (I kid you not) to monitor homeowners. The cops over here need no reason whatsoever to pull you over, and the list just goes on and on and on. George Orwell eat your heart out...
i never heard that.
about microsoft.....
as som1 i know says, microsoft:'you've got questions, we've got dancing paper clips'
anyway, big bill is retireing soon anyway.
does any1 think google is a threat???
(from spying point of view??)
I think this is a little fishy
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| was a long day eyes kinda crossed, and agree it is funny to think gov needs help, well they do but in other ways. |
Microsoft knows more about windows than the DHS does. But why would they get homeland security to announce how important it is? Thats microsoft's job.
This is funny but, maybe microsoft is teaming up with homeland security to track people that participate in file sharing or maybe tracking people that are under 21 and looking at porn.
who knows why homeland security wants people to download the patch? 
