{"id":93,"date":"2006-01-16T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=93"},"modified":"2022-04-16T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T13:02:15","slug":"is-wmf-an-intentional-ms-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/01\/16\/is-wmf-an-intentional-ms-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Is WMF an intentional MS backdoor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/sn\/SN-022.htm\">Security Now! Transcript of Episode #22<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/SecurityNow.htm#22\">Security Now!<\/a> Steve Gibson details why he believes Microsoft intentionally introduced the WMF feature responsible for last week&#8217;s zero-day vulnerability.  Gibson is now on a quest to discover exactly when this feature made it&#8217;s way into Windows and who is responsible for it.  This is particularly troubling when taken in context with Microsoft&#8217;s ambition to enter the security services market, <a href=\"\/index.php\/2005\/11\/07\/microsofts-grand-scheme-to-take-over-the-world\/\">something I&#8217;ve talked about before<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll definitely be keeping my eye on this one.<\/p>\n<p>update:  Despite the stir Gibson&#8217;s claims have created, it would seem his argument is without merit.  The story has been dbunked by at least 2 people in the community.  <a href=\" http:=\" \"=\"\" www.stepto.com\"=\"\">Stephen Toulouse<\/a>, Communications Manager for security response at Microsoft (ie: media frontman for MS Sec) posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/msrc\/archive\/2006\/01\/13\/417431.aspx\">his answer to various questions about the WMF feature on the MSRC blog<\/a>.  Thomas C. Green also posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/01\/21\/wmf_fud_from_grc\/\">blistering critique of Gibson&#8217;s story<\/a> completely ripping it to shreds.  Green&#8217;s not exactly friendly to Microsoft either for that matter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security Now! Transcript of Episode #22 In a recent edition of Security Now! Steve Gibson details why he believes Microsoft intentionally introduced the WMF feature responsible for last week&#8217;s zero-day vulnerability. Gibson is now on a quest to discover exactly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/01\/16\/is-wmf-an-intentional-ms-backdoor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}