Microsoft released a beta XP SP3 to testers on Sunday and, besides a veritable multitude of 1,073 fixes and patches, according to a blog by NeoSmart Technologies, it apparently contains more backported - presumably life-extending - Vista security features than it was supposed to - stuff like the keyless Vista Product Activation Model, Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module (KMCM) algorithms, 'Black Hole Router' protection against rogue routers that discard data, and the expected Network Access Protection (NAP) so only security policy-abiding widgets can connect to a network.
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