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I am going to file this one under the, “I wouldn’t want to be in the culprits shoes” category. It turns out that hidden inside the hologram of your Windows Vista DVD you will find a picture of some unknown trifecta.

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Since 2002 when Microsoft started ramping up government server sales it has been pretty adverse to embarrassing easter eggs appearing in its products. It’s all a part of the trustworthy computing initiative which states that software produced by Microsoft always,

“..does what people expect it to do – and not something else – despite environmental disruption, human user and operator errors, and attacks by hostile parties. Design and implementation errors must be avoided, eliminated or somehow tolerated. It is not sufficient to address only some of these dimensions, nor is it sufficient simply to assemble components are themselves trustworthy. Trustworthiness is holistic and multidimensional.”

In layman’s terms, what you see is what you get. Clever little easter eggs like this one fly in the face of these kinds of policies.

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It took Microsoft 5 months to find this little slip up. For a company that has come out so strongly in favor of “trusted computing” you would think they would spend a few additional seconds on quality assurance. Regardless, it could have been worse. They could have imprinted a picture of Ron Paul and caused the entire Internet to rise up to make certain that the DVDs were enshrined in a museum somewhere.

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