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Cryptogram Judges MS Security
johnfoobar writes "The latest issue of Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram has a section entitled 'Judging Microsoft' which aims to "provide a list of measurable recommendations, so that the community can judge Microsoft's sincerity."
Required reading if you use Microsoft products." Update: 02/15 18:15 GMT by M : A better link is Schneier's first essay this month, which is about Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative.
'Trustworth Computing' and Microsoft in the same sentece is an oxymoron.
That said it is much easier to innovate wihtout regard to security even at a basic level, MS has been doing just this for quite sometime, and it looks like it may finally be catching up to bite em in the ass.
MS has made great strides in interface usablitiy, and some disasters, some minor security annoyance, and some bungles of a scale unseen before. Quantity, not Quality has been the MS creed for a long while, blowind the doors off their prior interface and capablities of 3.1 to win95 was a major leap, and they ran like a thief with it.
Its easy to innovate and produce LOTS of stuff fast if security isnt a concer, unfortunatley for MS that mindset became standard at MS, Bill's Memo is proof in itself,
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
Congratulations, you just pointed out that he pointed out that you pointed out that Microsoft is a business. *GASP*
Repetition is fun!
It's been a long time.