>Just imagine if someone were to found
>a backdoor into Outlook.... and Outlook
>is used in countless of government agencies
>around the world. Poor Bill will really be poor then
>if not convicted as a criminal.

        Dear Peter, money changes everything...

        Have you ever realized the power of VBS (Visual Basic Script)???

        It can do **everything** in your system. A well-trained VB programmer can=
 even modify the kernal of windows and make it do everything he can! See=
 the most common virus (viri?)...it TAKES AWAY the control of TCP/IP and=
 can do ANYTHING it likes. It sends e-mails and in a virus I got more or=
 less a year ago, it BLOCKED acess via web and e-mail to all the anti-virus=
 sites. I tried to go to Mcafee, symantec and others, and always returned=
 an error. I tried to isolate the virus and send it to datafellows (I use=
 F-Prot and found it to be the BEST antivirus avaiable) for a vaccine, but=
 it BLOCKED my e-mails.

        What is this? A "feature"

        I call this a **backdoor**.

        Unintentional or not, this is something I don't want in my system. I have=
 proofguarded my system in every way I can. But with every micro$oft=
 program, comes the fear of a new backdoor. Do you know the Office pack=
 modifies your windows kernal??? Doing what? I don't know. But anyway...

        Another interesting concept is of "beta testers". Before, we were PAID to=
 test a program, and show it's bugs before public release. Now we PAY to be=
 the beta testers of these programs, and the "public release" was changed=
 to "service packs". Sell first, fix after. Would you agree to buy a car=
 that should be "debugged" by you? If something happened, like, the brake=
 pump had a factory defect, and you crashed, and your little daughter died,=
 the manufacturer of your car would say it had no liability about this, as=
 you bought your car "as is" and try to sell you a "service pack" to fix=
 the defects in your car???

        Welcome (again) to the real world - that's the way most of the companies=
 are being run today.

        Some years ago, Wired published an article about the great cyberwar of=
 2002...let me see if I can find it here...Found: Wired 6.02 - the great=
 cyberwar of 2002. Read it and see what is going to happen. I read this=
 article in february of 1998, and found it to be quite funny. Now we are=
 living it. And it will be worse. Be prepared to the worse. Microsoft will=
 take us to the doom, and we will be glad of it.

        People lost the sense of what is wrong and what is right. It was never=
 been so easy to earn money, but it was never so evilish.

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