[Senator Bedfellow]

If this is a backdoor, you can bet it was instigated by FedGov.

It's not. Gibbie is, as usual, full of it. Here's one commenter who notes that Gibson's assertion that the exploit can only be triggered with a record length of 1 (so therefore it *must* be intentional!!1!1!11) is complete BS.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=173878&cid=14466008

I hate to be the party-pooper, but Gibson is next to worthless as a source for anything related to computer security.

[ThePythonicCow]

His statement that it took a record length of one was based on his test probes up to that point - sort of black box testing.

He is now tearing apart the code, instruction by instruction.

Likely, the record length of one detail was wrong.

What he gets from reading the actual machine instructions will be rock solid - that's how Steve works.

What he has already, the CALL EAX into the metafile (which is supposed to contain image data, not machine instructions), is seriously compelling.

Please quit slandering Gibson. I don't know your agenda here, sir, but something stinks about your postings.