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Microsoft to Focus on Security

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eye-of-sauron dept.

Anonymous Minion writes: "The Associated Press is reporting that Bill Gates announced to employees Wednesday a major strategy shift across all its products to emphasize security and privacy over new capabilities. In e-mail to employees, Gates referred to the new philosophy as "Trustworthy Computing" and called it the "highest priority". Gates said the new emphasis was "more important than any other part of our work."" People criticized Microsoft for treating security breaches as a public relations problem, so Bill Gates sent this email out to the Associated Press to prove them wrong. (rimshot!) Meanwhile, Richard Smith notes that the Globally Unique Identifier in every installation of Windows Media Player allows websites to universally track users, and Microsoft does not consider it a security problem.

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  1. About windows media.. by guacamole · · Score: 5, Informative
    Meanwhile, Richard Smith notes that the Globally Unique Identifier in every installation of Windows Media Player allows websites to universally track users, and Microsoft does not consider it a security problem.

    Right. This is not a security problem. This is a privacy issue.

    And speaking of which. Many of us have fixed IP addresses. Web sites already track our actions with cookies. Telcos sell information about us to anyone who wants to pay for it. Get over it. We have no privacy to begin with.