[OT] Micro$oft versus security

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

walt wrote:
Nevertheless they have been broken recently (about one year) and for 
MD5 for example single bits can be changed...
Okay, that's why I asked -- I didn't know that.  But why take a year
to break a secure hash when you can use a buffer overrun to gain
access to ten thousand Windows machines in a few minutes ;o)
Oh, maybe I didn't write this clear enough:  the vulnerability was found 
about one year ago.  Adjusting the data so the MD5 sum stays the same is 
a matter of a few cycles.

cheers
  simon
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