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| Authored by: dio gratia on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 09:28 PM EST |
The Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is to be congratulated on the
clear separation of the press releases for the office he holds and his
reelection campaign.
Perhaps he's still smarting from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, as of the new
year he was still running unopposed.
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 10:44 PM EST |
Well apparently he also wrote backdoors to the software and used them to spy on
his clients. It's one thing to write backdoors into code.
I do it all the time, but it's only for diagnosis of problems and
troubleshooting. Sometimes you need a way into the code or to escalate
privileges to find the cause of a problem. In fact, I just enabled a dormant
back door in some beta code today, because I suspected a privilege issue with a
peripheral application interface for the running code. Now, I need to deactivate
it and ensure the peripheral code gets the proper rights.
However, using backdoors to spy is a very big no-no in my book. But this is just
something he was accused of and we don't know if he did it. So, please reserve
any judgement pending the other side of the story. But should prosecuting
attorneys be liable for file false accusations. I know they have immunity,
because otherwise every crook that got off would be suing. But there needs to be
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