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Whit Diffie Comments On .NET security

Posted by timothy on from the lack-thereof dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Whit Diffie and Susan Landu (both of Sun Microsystems) comment on why .NET is a bad idea and is in many ways in conflict with the US political struture and ideals." This is a good read, but of course Sun has their own plans and motivations in this field.

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  1. Re:EquiFax? by Hiro+Antagonist · · Score: 2, Informative

    The difference is that Equifax (now Experion) doesn't draw its revenue directly from the consumer -- they don't physically rely on selling things to the mass market for revenue. In addition, Experion functions under a great deal of government restriction regarding what they can and cannot do with the information they possess.

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  2. Perpetuating stupidity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Let's make something perfectly clear, since no one else seems able to do it: .NET is NOT the same as Passport or myServices or any of that crap. Passport and a database that would be built from them are applications built ON TOP of the .NET platform. .NET in and of itself is actually a very good idea, something that every major player in the industry today is trying to do (read: WEB SERVICES). There's nothing wrong with that model and most people with half a brain realize that.

    Now, Passport and all the services Microsoft is trying to force down are throats are absolutely evil and will corrupt absolutely (as if THAT isn't the case ALREADY).

    But please, for the love of all that is good and holy, get the facts, or at least the terminology straight. Anyone that is against .NET doesn't understand what the hell it is. Hate Passport all you want. Hate any of the services MS is building, because they SHOULD be hated. But don't hate a platform that is actually quite good and holds a great deal of potential.

    Gee, no one hates Linux here, but if I built Passport using things available on Linux now (maybe mySQL and PHP and Apache let's say), would that be a problem for anyone? No, of course not. You'd separate the discussion between the platform and the service build on top of the platform.

    Same damned thing here. Everyone is so anxious to hate Microsoft (for good reason) that they don't want to give them ANY credit for what they might actually have done a good job on.

    .NET != Passport. GET IT STRAIGHT FROM NOW ON!!