The debate over evil code

In the debate over “selling exploits” people haven’t defined what, precisely, an “exploit” is. The only definition is that they “know it when they see it”. In this post I’m going to describe something that isn’t clearly an exploit.

Back in 1998, I created one of the first “personal firewalls”, known as “BlackICE Defender”. We designed it to run on both Windows 95 and Windows NT. Win95 was the dead-end 16-bit operating that is no longer in use, WinNT is the progenitor of today’s Win7.