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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 6 Aug 2008 12:32:18
Message: <4899d212$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> (The document I have is, however, not interesting. Even slightly. 
> Actually, it's hard to see what's so confidential about it.)

When I worked for Bellcore, I once got a document marked "CONFIDENTIAL!" 
whose only content was

   1 2 3
   4 5 6
   7 8 9
   * 0 #

The author admitted it was easier to mark everything confidential than 
to actually think about it. Apparently the lawyers hadn't told him 
that's counterproductive.  (Basically, if you mark something as 
confidential that you've already distributed widely in public, you're 
implying that the other things you've marked confidential can also be 
distributed widely in public.)

Some of the people in the meeting even framed the document with the 
proprietary notice highlighted and hung it up in their office.

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 6 Aug 2008 12:56:36
Message: <4899d7c4$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:29:18 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Ooo... I just printed out some file I found, and it says on it
> "MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL - PROVIDED UNDER NDA. DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE."
> 
> I wonder how we got hold of that...?

Someone probably signed a non-disclosure agreement. ;-)

Jim


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 6 Aug 2008 14:21:58
Message: <4899ebc6@news.povray.org>
"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Gilles Tran wrote:
>
> > Apparently some Asus computers were sold with some files that should
have
> > been deleted but haven't, including keygens and information about
cracking
> > Vista... (GIYF)
>
> Ooo, that's *interesting*...
>
> (The document I have is, however, not interesting. Even slightly.
> Actually, it's hard to see what's so confidential about it.)

What is it about?


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 6 Aug 2008 14:22:57
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Ooo... I just printed out some file I found, and it says on it
> "MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL - PROVIDED UNDER NDA. DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE."
>
> I wonder how we got hold of that...?

I seem to have a fair bit of stuff with that in these days. All nice
interesting stuff on  %^&%#@!$%%&&(($%^#@@@$ ..... NO CARRIER .....


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 6 Aug 2008 15:29:03
Message: <4899fb7f$1@news.povray.org>
Gail Shaw wrote:

> What is it about?

How OEMs can preconfigure the Windows Firewall. (Specifically, it 
changed during SP2, didn't it?)

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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 6 Aug 2008 15:40:15
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Gail Shaw wrote:
>
> > What is it about?
>
> How OEMs can preconfigure the Windows Firewall. (Specifically, it
> changed during SP2, didn't it?)

Wouldn't know. I can ask if you're interested.


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 6 Aug 2008 16:24:11
Message: <489a086b@news.povray.org>
>>> What is it about?

>> How OEMs can preconfigure the Windows Firewall. (Specifically, it
>> changed during SP2, didn't it?)

> Wouldn't know. I can ask if you're interested.

Nah, I'm not that bothered.

It *is* kinda interesting that this file should just be randomly 
floating around though when it says it's supposed to be "confidential". 
I'm not sure why configuring a firewall should be confidential, but hey, 
that's what it says... ;-)

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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 7 Aug 2008 04:01:22
Message: <489aabd2$1@news.povray.org>
>> I wonder how we got hold of that...?
> 
> Someone probably signed a non-disclosure agreement. ;-)

Figures. Some people round here will happily sign anything you push at 
them. :-P

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 7 Aug 2008 12:40:39
Message: <489b2587$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:01:21 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> I wonder how we got hold of that...?
>> 
>> Someone probably signed a non-disclosure agreement. ;-)
> 
> Figures. Some people round here will happily sign anything you push at
> them. :-P

I think that's true in many places. :-)

Jim


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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: Unusual
Date: 8 Aug 2008 13:28:50
Message: <489c8252$1@news.povray.org>

>>>> What is it about?
> 
>>> How OEMs can preconfigure the Windows Firewall. (Specifically, it
>>> changed during SP2, didn't it?)
> 
>> Wouldn't know. I can ask if you're interested.
> 
> Nah, I'm not that bothered.
> 
> It *is* kinda interesting that this file should just be randomly 
> floating around though when it says it's supposed to be "confidential". 
> I'm not sure why configuring a firewall should be confidential, but hey, 
> that's what it says... ;-)
> 

Think about it...  If everyone knew how Dell and HP and others 
preconfigured the windows firewall, there'd be 74325694256942769824698 
sploits in the wild already circumventing those default rules.

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