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Discussion on: Goodbye, Internet Explorer. You will not be missed.

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moose

If you're on windows you are still running operations through IE4, at least, IE4 still collects all your data from what I remember. I got hacked in October, and I ended up finding all these crazy issues trying to retake my rig. Like at Install, it literally just a forced screen. You can literally get into your register. I had my ARP poisoned and my endpoint were enumerated in my recovery env.

I literally removed myself from the "Everyone" SID and then got live breached and nuked through an anon SID I've never seen before running tasks I deleted. I also was trying to get them to tell me why the Chinese GSM Root CA's existed for one, but I wanted to know why they had perms for all issuance policies and why I had so many hidden pinyin tables.

In fact, I remember getting to the basebrd file finally and exposing that we all don't really install Windows in english. We all install some version of the Chinese multilingual and the mui files handle a lot of translating. The pinyin tables I found were straight mandarin pinyin to byte. The only version I could see that didn't these issues was the Windows SE version.

Anyways, sorry about the tangent. I just thought I should aware you because I've had MS Employees posing as convercent to me the first time I launch the internal, the second time I got straight shut down and everything just vanished. So theres some cheeky stuff happening over in Redmond via the Webm's and Adobe.

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Charanjit Chana

That sucks!

In one of my old jobs, access to the registry actually enabled us to deliver a product but it was really uncomfortable working that way. Basically laptops were locked down to a handful of websites. Our app was used to unlock more for the user. Crazy loophole for a browser to have!

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moose

Oh Wow! Its a hell of a OS to sysAdmin for. I switched to a mac because I honestly stopped wanting to know how the operating system worked after learning how to hack it to bits. Never been happier. Cheers!