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Your day wouldn't be complete without Microsoft news. Ralph Nader has written an open letter to Judge Kollar-Kotelly. Seems he has a few bones to pick with the settlement. MSNBC is running a WSJ article detailing how Microsoft beat down the DOJ in settlement negotiations. Even Israel knows Microsoft is a monopoly. Microsoft reveals its keep-them-in-the-dark plan for Microsoft security vulnerabilities. Amazingly, some security firms seem to be willing to go along with it. I guess they figure setting up a sort of cartel for security flaws is in their best financial interest. SANS is keeping their list of top security vulnerabilities up to date with the latest IIS exploits. And finally, MS wishes their new disclosure rules were used for yet another huge hole in Windows. Microsoft says it's "irresponsible" to expect them to get a patch out for a critical flaw within "a few days". As usual, switch off active scripting, even though that will make essentially every webpage that's designed for IE not work.

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that last one is NOT a hole in windows.

[turbine216]

And finally, MS wishes their new disclosure rules were used for yet another huge hole in Windows.

If you read the security bulletin, it's not referring to windows at all. It's a problem with Internet Explorer version 5.5 or later.

Seems that that little slip exposes a great deal of anti-M$ bias. Not good for a supposed "news source".

Re:that last one is NOT a hole in windows.

[gergi]

the point is... MICROSOFT said IE could not be taken out of Windows. It is an integral piece of Windows according to Microsoft. So if an integral part of Windows has a bug, Windows has a bug!

Of course, If IE can be removed from Windows, Microsoft has lied before the courts.

Either way, Microsoft is either lying or has another bug in their OS. Which way would you like to have it, Mr Gates?

Re:that last one is NOT a hole in windows.

[BurritoWarrior]

So, shouldn't we all be lobbying for perjury charges against all the MS executives who testified in Federal Court?

ROFLMAO

[rlangis]

Jesus saves....And takes 1/2 damage.

OMG, if I wasn't at work I'd be bawling my eyes out in laughter-induced hysteria. That has got to be the funniest damned .sig I've seen.

*cough*

Now... Yesterday I went to a site - eqcomics? - using Mozilla 0.93 (or somesuch, I don't track version numbers as religiously as some. Whatever the default for Debian testing is), and it gave me a minimal page with "This page can only be viewed using Internet Explorer 5+"

Bah. Perhaps the multitude of bugs and backdoors and such in nearly ALL of M$'s products (or so it seems - every other day we hear of something new) will convince page designers to forgo all of the Javascript 'browser tests' and simply code a GOOD site. :P

Re:Someone...

[Anonymous Coward]

What????????????? I thought Linux had ZERO security flaws! I thought it was the most perfect software ever written!!. In fact, I thought it was the greatest engineering project ever created of any kind!!!!!!!

DAMMIT I THOUGHT IT WAS HANDED DOWN BY GOD HIMSELF AS PROOF OF HIS DIVINE NATURE!!!!!!!!!

I know because Slashdot told me so.

The problem is people like you

[Anonymous Coward]

who exploit weaknesses of the Internet for personal gain. I'll bet right now you're pissed at Microsoft for asking for tougher disclosure guidelines, yet if it weren't for you and your script kiddie brethren they wouldn't need to tighten the rules.

Re:You know what I find funny?

[sheldon]

Absolutely!

The RedHat network is a wonderul example of getting a lot for your money.

Ever since I subscribed to it, I've been getting 5 times as many security vulnerabilities from RedHat than what I get from Microsoft.

I don't understand why Microsoft can't keep up. Maybe they should start shipping sendmail with Windows XP?