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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Versioning file system
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:46:00 -0700
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Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> As I mentioned in my Linux.conf.au presentation a year and a half ago,
> the main use of Streams in Windows to date has been for system
> crackers to hide trojan horse code and rootkits so that system
> administrators couldn't find them.  :-)
> 

But... that's an essential feature in Windows!  Otherwise, how would
Microsoft produce a RKDK (Rootkit development kit) to sell to Sony?

	-hpa