It is not a new thing from VMware to ship Easter Eggs in their products. Numerous versions of vSphere shipped with those. While that may have been cute in 1995, we live in a very different, very connected world where this doesn’t pass muster.
How cute.
Surely, in this post-Snowden world VMware wouldn’t have left Easter eggs in their Enterprise Class, Enterprise Cost vSphere 5.5. I mean, come on, the Pong Easter Egg has been publicly noted and the world is more sensitive about security than ever before. VMware got rid of this right?
Nope.
This still exists in vSphere 5.5 (!!!) and who know what other surprises are in there and what they haven’t disclosed in their security audits. So much for Enterprise Class. This is more like Fisher Price class.
This post was adapted from a piece originally written by: Jeff Woolsey, Principal Group Program Manager, Windows Server Virtualization.