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Life in a faraday cage

There was an internal discussion about an unrelated topic recently, and it reminded me of an early experience in my career at Microsoft. When I started, my 2nd computer was a pre-production PC/AT (the first was an XT). The AT had been announced by IBM Read More...
Posted Friday, August 05, 2005 10:17 AM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments

Compressible Encryption

Time to spread a smidge of dirt on Microsoft :). One of my favorite dialog boxes is found in Outlook. If you dig deep enough into your email accounts, you'll find the following dialog box: The reason I like this dialog box is the default setting "Compressible Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:38 PM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments

Microsoft Exchange 5.0's credential cache security problems

The other day, I wrote about the Exchange 5.0 NNTP (and POP3, and Exchange 5.5 IMAP) server’s credential cache. Well, the credentials cache was my first experience with a customer reported security vulnerability. As reported in Windows IT Pro magazine, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:11 PM by LarryOsterman | 5 Comments
 
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