WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor?
Found on Slashdot on Thursday, 12 January 2006
Steve Gibson alleges that the WMF vulnerability in Windows was neither a bug, nor a feature designed without security in mind, but was actually an intentionally placed backdoor. In a more detailed explanation, Gibson explains that the way SetAbortProc works in metafiles does not bear even the slightest resemblance to the way it works when used by a program while printing. Based on the information presented, it really does look like an intentional backdoor.
Now this might be true, or Steve Gibson wears a tinfoil hat all day long. Still, the conclusions which lead him to this statement sound quite plausible. That's somehow disturbing.