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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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On 7/24/2024 6:19 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> I saw an article where Microsoft was blaming the EU for forcing them
>> to allow 3rd-party access to the Kernal, which they claim is what
>> enabled the update to do bad things. If that is true, they may have a
>> point.
> 
> There is always third-party access to the kernel.  In the Windows NT days
> before Microsoft had figured out 1960s-style memory protection, any program
> in user space could make changes to the kernel.  And sometimes they
> accidentally did.
> 
> What the EU forced Microsoft to do was to DOCUMENT the kernel so that
> people could more reliably get third-party access.
> --scott

There have always been back doors into the DOS, Win16, Win32, and Win64 
kernels.  I document some of those on my website:
    https://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html

Lynn