[geeks] Zune DoS attack?

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I was reading some reviews of the Microsoft Zune, and two flaws
> mentioned in several reviews caught my eye:
> 
> The first is the privacy settings.
> 
> The Zune broadcasts what you are listening to and some other
> information. The security settings are either broadcast what you are
> listening to, or do that and also some other information.
> 
> Why not an option to broadcast nothing, or disable sharing completely?
> 
> The next related problem is that anyone can send you a file, and the
> Zune interrupts playback to ask for permission to receive the file.

Oh gods ......    Please tell me Microsoft wasn't that stupid.



Oh, wait, this is MICROSOFT we're talking about.  Of COURSE they were
that stupid.



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