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Interview With Microsoft's Chief of Security

Posted by timothy on from the reserve-judgment-then-reduce-with-whine dept.

Paul Coe Clark III writes: "I interviewed Howard Schmidt, Microsoft's head of security, questioning him about, among other things, cyberterrorism and Redmond's responsibility for insecure features in the wake of many virus attacks. /. readers might find it interesting. They can find it here."

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  1. Yeah...that makes sense by Sabalon · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think it doesn't make any difference whether it is open source or closed source, it's a matter of identifying them once the product is released.

    So...who cares if there are problems. We'll find them eventually - as soon as someone exploits them and we hear about it. I wonder if they release their code like that for QA as well. It's a matter of identifying bugs once the product is released.

    I understand that you problems happen, but this is kinda like shoving things under the carpet and hoping no-one looks - or to use his analogies - letting the burgler in the front door of the apartment complex and hope that all the doors are locked, but ask him on the way out where he got the loot from.

    True reason MS won't release the source code for a security audit:
    ~$ df
    /home 200M free
    ~$ cd windows/source
    ~/windows/source$ find . -name "*.c*" -exec grep -l gets {} \; > ~/
    volume /home: disk full
    :)

  2. Re:Mod me down please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Troll

    You inadvertently used reverse psychology on moderators which *ALWAYS* seems to work. Phrases like "I know I'm going to be modded to hell for this..." guarantee a +1 moderation, at least.

  3. At the same time Microsoft is victim... by azatoth · · Score: 0, Troll

    of Internic hacking:

    Try "whois microsoft.com"
    And you'll get a good laugh at it :-)

    (result is in capital letters so cannot be posted here because of lameness filter)

    And btw this news has been rejected by slashdot.

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  4. Re:They're trying by swright · · Score: 3, Troll

    This is exactly what gets me about MS...

    trusting the sysadmin's dilligence

    Yeah, thats why they have system files hidden and an explanation of what the Start Menu does on Windows 200 Advanced Server

    The point of MS's software, pure and simple, is that the user doesn't have to even think to be able to use it... which is totally contradictory to a the idea of a productive yet secure system...

    thoughts of desperation follow...

  5. AHA! by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 4, Troll

    The guy even works three blocks from the WhiteHouse.

    The software is developed in a suburb of Seattle Washington (state) and the company's security chief works in Washington (DC), nearly as far from the software department as you can get and still be in the continental US.

    THAT explains the security problems in Microsoft products!

    B-)

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