I'm sure you're all aware of the WMF vulnerability and all the hoohaw surrounding it as a potential backdoor implanted by Microsoft. Mark, in his latest post (as of this posting) gives a wonderful analysis as to why he believes it's not a backdoor by Microsoft. What I find most interesting about this post, however, is the inside look given by him into the vulnerability itself; most of us simply download the patch by Microsoft for the 'bug' and call it a day - but it's interesting to look deep into why the vulnerability existed in the first place and how some 'flaws' may actually be, originally, simply a feature.

I really get a kick out of some of the stuff Mark comes up with...

   At work we're in the process of installing Vista and the latest and greatest bits from Microsoft onto a Dell we have laying around; and it's quite apparent to me that my fascination with WCF is going to mean a lot of code writing (which I'll be posting here), I'm hoping to become more and more focused on it as it's really what gets me the most excited about the new OS from MS. Here is a homepage for the WCF courtesy of a blog post by Don Box, it's someplace I'll be frequenting.  

I normally don't talk about our company much on this blog, but I thought it might be interesting for some to see our new office building.

Steve points to a very interesting application called Foxit reader on one of his latest posts. Apparently a snazzy, light weight app for reading PDF files.

   Alex has a great blog entry on the NT Object Manager.

   .....I'm really a gear head deep down, here are a couple cool downloads I came across for those interested in the Windows Vista kernel:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/vista/kernel-en.mspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going_Deep

   ...I'm really behind the times on this, I know, but I'm going to start exploring the Messenger Plus! API from these guys.