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Microsoft Blames the Messengers
Roger writes: "In an essay published on microsoft.com, Scott Culp, Manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, calls on security experts to "end information anarchy" and stop releasing sample code that exploits security holes in Windows and other operating systems. "It's high time the security community stopped providing the blueprints for building these weapons," Culp writes in the essay. "And it's high time that computer users insisted that the security community live up to its obligation to protect them." See the story on Cnet News.com."
It's probably high time that Microsoft stop building houses made of straw to defend against big bad 'net wolves... It'd sure make a lot of our lives easier...
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Information wants...you to shut your pie hole.
It is good to note the use of the terrorist rhetoric, "...blueprints for building these weapons...". Talk about riding on the coattails. This seems more like a line out of the evening news than a statement about software security. Spin doctors working overtime on this one.
In related news, ford reprimanded crash test labs for disclosing and showing the world about the exploding gastank in the ford pinto.
F*cking idiot. They're willing to blame everyone but themselves for the fact that they have such easily exploitable software.
BTW, to back up this claim, I urge everyone to read up on how exactly how ILOVEYOU and SIRCAM were so popular. ILOVEYOU didn't even need to exploit anything!
...and if you have software which is THAT easily exploitable, maybe you deserve the critisism, rather than blaming the security industry. If nobody published anything on exploits or viruses, E-mail viruses would be even worse because nobody would realize that the way that ILOVEYOU ruined their system is by reading the e-mail called ILOVEYOU which ran script automatically, and everybody would be busy reading a file to have your advise.
It's been a long time.
Offtopic? What the hell? IsleOfView makes a very good point. Obviously he got modded up appropriately also, but this kind of shit is really starting to bug me.
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My Karma was at 49, then they switched to words. All that work for nothing!
Black Talon is the name of the bullet. The maker of the Black Talon is Winchester
http://www.winchester.com/
Black Talon is like any other premium HP that is in the civilian market. The reason why it was voluntary pull out of the civilian market was gun-grabbing liberals that know nothing about bullet design.
First these liberals where scare of the name "Black Talon". It sounded so mean that it must be bad.
Second the bullet was painted black which scare the hell out of the gun-grabbing liberals. Black Talon does not penetrate soft body armor like its name might suggested. In fact in some tests it perform badly compare to other premium HP. I think Winchester stop making Black Talon but did improve on the design and rename it Ranger Talon, which unfortunately is still for LEA only.
The marking department of Winchester did a good job at marking Black Talon. This is also its downfall.
Never mind that the round does significantly more damage than typical jacketed or unjacketed rounds right?
Black Talon bullets are designed to add another category to the typical ballistics damage of penetration, cavity formation, concussive force and fragmentation. Black Talons further add cutting damage by splitting without fragmentation to form cutting edges that are designed to create more damage to internal organs.
Therefore, the question with the Black Talon was: Does the civillian market need this sort of round given that they might be used against peace officers? I think that if you regularly were on the potential receiving end (police officers) of this sort of threat, you also might complain more than just a bit.
Unless one is in a military environment, far from a trauma center, I can see no benefit of a ballistic round such as the Black Talon. My time spent in the ER during student rotations illustrated that the vast majority of gunshot wounds were smaller caliber rounds (9mm and smaller), but the damage was substantial and all to often effective enough without adding further damage that would require more surgery and longer recovery times and more cost to the taxpayer.
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