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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:27:36 -0500
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On 7/26/2024 11:29 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:35:18 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> I still have my Undocumented books (DOS, PC, Windows) and, somewhere a
> very popular in its day list of IRQs that I downloaded at some point.
> 
> /Undocumented Windows/ pointed out that, as Windows evolved (this was
> mostly about the 16-bit versions), Microsoft re-organized the APIs it
> provided but left a stub in the original DLL to transfer the call to
> whatever DLL it was now in.
> 
> I once used that to demonstrate that even a system that was clearly
> designed could have "junk DNA" (superfluous code) in it.
> 
> This, of course, was back when "junk DNA" was Proof Positive against
> people being designed.
> 
> Now there is no "junk DNA"; indeed, the difference between Man and
> Monkey appears to be all about the former "junk DNA", which kind of
> blows a hole in gene theory, as the non-genes appear to be more
> important than the genes in some respects.

My wife took part in a Breast Cancer trial 19 years ago as a part of her 
treatment.  My wife has the bad BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.  They used a 
designed drug, Herceptin, applied weekly over 52 weeks to modify her 
DNA.  The results of the trial were that her chance of reoccurance of 
her stage 2b breast cancer dropped from 65% over five years to less than 
25%.  The actual reoccurance over 19 years has been zero.

Lynn