[ale] your new administrator, bill gates

[Keith R. Watson]

At 18:59 6/30/2002 -0400, you wrote:


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Irv Mullins [mailto:irvm at ellijay.com]
>Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:02 PM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] your new administrator, bill gates
>
>
>On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:17 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html
> >
> > If you caught our recent coverage  of the Windows Media
>Player trio of
> > security holes you may have followed a link to the TechNet
>download site
> > for a patch, or you might have activated Windows Update.
>If you did the
> > former (though, oddly, not if you did the latter), you
>would have been
> > confronted with an End User License Agreement (EULA)
>stating, most
> > ominously, that:
> >
> > "You agree that in order to protect the integrity of
>content and
> > software protected by digital rights management ('Secure
>Content'),
> > Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS
>Components that
> > will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These
>security
> > related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or
>play Secure
> > Content and use other software on your computer. If we
>provide such a
> > security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post
>notices on a web
> > site explaining the update."
>
>Thank you for allowing Lou's Auto Service to change
>your oil.
>
>By doing so, you hereby agree to our new EULA, which allows
>Lou to add or remove any components from your auto that he
>deems
>necessary.
>
>These changes may disable your brakes or steering,
>or otherwise interfere with your use of your vehicle.
>Before driving it, be sure to check Lou's website
>which may or may not contain notices about such
>changes.
>
>Have a nice day.
>
>Irv
>
>I think you need to change it to ( Any Manufacturing
>Dealership)  don't know if the rest of you have been
>following the news.  But Manufactures are fight not to
>release the Auto repair codes that are stored in then on
>board computers. Repair shops are having to turn away
>business because of it.  Kind of make you want to go
>pre-computer or go total electric.
>
>Adrin
>
>
>
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I used to co consulting work. One of the contracts I had was reverse 
engineering automotive control computers. The manufacturers were not very 
to helpful in documenting how their computer systems worked. That never 
stopped us then, and I doubt it will stop others in the future.

keith
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836

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