[mattknox]

Having had my Milgram immunization, I would probably be able to resist the temptation. :)

That said, I doubt anyone would be particularly interested: all of this is pretty out-of-date: I was pretty good with Wins ME, 98, and XP, but I don't know anything about Vista and more recent versions. It wasn't _that_ hard to figure this stuff out-the TLAs must have vastly better people.

It does make me wonder what's going on in China, though: I'm told they are basically all XP. Is there an insane amount of hacking going on there? I've periodically thought about setting a honeypot to see what's up. It turns out to be really hard: you can't just run XP in a VM, because most VMs are (were?) detectable by even a moderately sophisticated attacker. The best idea I had was to have an external box record all the traffic in and out, and have a process on-box watch for new processes and track them. Maybe I would find some interesting beasties.