Dept of Homeland Security's interest with Windows patch

[rivalneighbour]

8/10/2006
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) yesterday issued an unusual press release urging Windows users to apply a specific security patch from Microsoft. That patch, MS06-040, was just released as part of Microsoft's monthly cycle of security updates, so most home users should already be secure."

"Because the DHS warning was so unusual, it has prompted some wild talk that the Microsoft security patch is, in reality, a government surveillance tool designed to spy on Windows users around the world."

Story here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060810-7466.html

 

[Zoron]

Your second quote is a little misleading... you left this part out:

While this makes for some entertaining speculation, it's the sort of thing that would single-handedly eviscerate Microsoft's business, and would no doubt be uncovered quickly by security researchers. The user backlash from such a program would be little short of astonishing.