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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. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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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