So... I was just reading this earlier... I found it interesting enough 
to share :) what do you guys think? intentional? or goof?

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/13/1519204&from=rss

WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor? 
Posted by Zonk on Friday January 13, @12:36PM
 from the take-with-a-grain-of-salt dept. 
 Windows   Bug   Programming  
 
 An anonymous reader writes "Steve Gibson alleges that the WMF 
vulnerability in Windows was neither a bug, nor a feature designed 
without security in mind, but was actually an intentionally placed 
backdoor. In a  more detailed explanation, Gibson explains that the way 
SetAbortProc works in metafiles does not bear even the slightest 
resemblance to the way it works when used by a program while printing. 
Based on the information presented, it really does look like an 
intentional backdoor." There's a transcript available of the 'Security 
Now!' podcast where Gibson discusses this.

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