Thursday, January 19, 2006

Conspiracy Theory Debunked: WMF Flaw was a backdoor

The recent WMF flaw gained a lot of media attention due to severity of the bug. Most of the stories detailed the attack and the risks to users. Steve Gibson took it one step further and claimed this was an intentional back door made by Microsoft.

This theory has now been thoroughly debunked by Mark Russinovich of SysInternals. Check out the article.

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/01/inside-wmf-backdoor.html

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