By John Gruber
Honk is the all-new way to chat with your friends in real time, with messages shown live as you type.
Bruce Schneier on the growing rumor that Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage system components enable Microsoft to disable a working Windows installation if they believe it isn’t “genuine”:
The stupidity of this idea is amazing. Not just the inevitability of false positives, but the potential for a hacker to co-opt the controls. I hope this rumor ends up not being true.
Although if they actually do it, the backlash could do more for non-Windows OSs than anything those OSs could do for themselves.
See also this follow-up from Ed Bott, with a rambling non-denial denial from a Microsoft PR flak.
(Via Nat Irons via email.)
★ Thursday, 6 July 2006