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* In the early 1700s, Dick Turpin, famous highwayman, once stopped a gentleman on a coach road and threatened him with a pistol. That "gentleman" turned out to be Thomas King, ''another'' famous highwayman. King was so ''impressed'' that he took Turpin as a partner and they robbed and murdered on the Essex roads together for two years. |
* In the early 1700s, Dick Turpin, famous highwayman, once stopped a gentleman on a coach road and threatened him with a pistol. That "gentleman" turned out to be Thomas King, ''another'' famous highwayman. King was so ''impressed'' that he took Turpin as a partner and they robbed and murdered on the Essex roads together for two years. |
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* The infamous Sony CD manufacter-sponsored rootkit would probably have had a longer run out in the wild if one of the first computers it had infected [https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2005/10/31/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights-management-gone-too-far/ hadn't belonged to Mark Russinovich] -- a senior Microsoft executive who invented most of the debugging, process monitoring, and system monitoring utilities for the Windows operating system, was a significant contributor to the Windows source code, and was one of the only human beings on Earth actually capable of doing the kernel-level debugging and audit of Windows XP necessary to find the rootkit in action. |
* The infamous Sony CD manufacter-sponsored rootkit would probably have had a longer run out in the wild if one of the first computers it had infected [https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2005/10/31/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights-management-gone-too-far/ hadn't belonged to Mark Russinovich] -- a senior Microsoft executive who invented most of the debugging, process monitoring, and system monitoring utilities for the Windows operating system, was a significant contributor to the Windows source code, and was one of the only human beings on Earth actually capable of doing the kernel-level debugging and audit of Windows XP necessary to find the rootkit in action. |
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** It gets better. He was also the developer of Windows' original RootkitRevealer utility. |
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