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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by windsurfer on Friday May 16, 2014 @01:24AM (#7753897)
Isn't this just an arms race, though? What's to stop people from doing this again?
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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by nullc on Friday May 16, 2014 @02:10AM (#7754003)
Every host would have a unique mask.
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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by VMG on Friday May 16, 2014 @03:04AM (#7754125)
Doesn't this make it slightly more difficult bootstrap a new node when you can't just copy an existing installation?
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Re:MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the B... by nwh on Friday May 16, 2014 @05:10AM (#7754537)
You shouldn't use that anyway, that's a trust needing operation. A bootstrap.dat file is what you want, which wouldn't have the obfuscation applied.
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