FBI urges further steps to safeguard Windows XP

[Gary Stoneburner <stoneburner@nist.gov>]

re:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/23/microsoft.hackers.ap/index.html

"The company [Microsoft] acknowledged this week that Windows XP
suffers from serious problems ..."

"Another risk, that hackers can implant rogue software on vulnerable
computers, was considered more remote because of the technical
sophistication required."

As to the latter, I must wonder what lack of sophistication the author
thinks exists out there.  While still "more remote" the
likelihood seems to me to be about 100% :-).

Cheers,
Gary

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