* Posts by Mathew Holleran

2 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Nov 2007

Brit scientists brew up three-parent embryo

Mathew Holleran
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Interesting but

not the threesome I had in mind.

Win XP also prone to random number bug

Mathew Holleran
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BS

"Microsoft said that to pull off the attack an attacker would need to have gained ownership of a machine, after which worries about random number would be the least of a user's worries."

Erm, BS, it's not as cut and dried as that. Most Win lusers run as Administrator anyway, so guess what happens when this bug is exploited by a trojan/worm etc.