John Connor’s zero-day Windows Vista Exploit
Correction: Although aired on FOX, the show is produced by Warner Bros. I made my corrections, sorry.
Tonight’s Sarah Connor Chronicles debuted what appeared to be a critical flaw in Windows Vista granting users remote access to any machine in the world, regardless of Internet connection. Scary stuff. Oh, John: You have a spelling error in your program’s screen output. I’ll file a bug.
The 1337h4x code seen above makes use of media removal locking structures and device handles, very impressive for TV, competing for the #1 slot CSI: Las Vegas currently holds. I’d applaud FOX Warner Bros., but sadly this is Visual Basic-flavored code (and they don’t return my emails). Yuck.
Other interesting shots are of the faux-Windows Vista user interface. Long Zheng pointed out some noteworthy items including the weird Netscape-looking browser, rounded Aero-like theme (on laptop shot), Aurora-inspired wallpaper, network-disconnected system tray icon, and red Start Orb (on PC shot).
Nitpicker’s corner: I’m very aware there is no real security issue.
Arrrr there matey! There be a criminal on our poop deck!
*A* spelling error!? “Acess,” “Prisioner,” “Arrrests,” and “Recieved”. Wow, whoever wrote that and whoever reviewed it before it aired all fail at life. Epic win for the guy getting to keep his job since Fox obviously didn’t catch it! Then again, I’m sure Fox wasn’t counting on Windows Vista dorks and grammar jackasses (just like you, YAAAAAY) taking screenshots of their show and making nerdy observations. lmao. (I know, I know… I’m guilty to. =( )
@Stephen: To be honest, I didn’t even look at it hard enough to realize all those mistakes. Oops. Also, I was corrected today: FOX doesn’t produce the show, Warner Bros. does.
The sort of Netscape is just Styler ToolBar… and the Visual Style come with…
Not really serious…
All the blue icons are changed to red because they’re evil.