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Air Force Warns Microsoft/Others to Tighten Security
FattyBoeBatty wrote to us with a story
from USA Today about the the Air Force and security concerns. The Microsoft point is the primary point of the article, but the AF CIO has also made the point at industry forums, and evidently with Cisco. Specific companies aside, I think it's a good thing that organizations are beignning to realize the exposure they have on security issues - and maybe will actually start to take steps to close them.
I guess 28 days haven't been enough for MS to fix their trash :)
The Air Force is free to buy a better operating system, if they can find one. And, yes, it's right and proper for a customer to make requests known to vendors. However, the threatening posture of the Air Force in this matter, in the context of ongoing government harrassment of the vendor, is very ominous. The federal government is in the habit of enforcing its "preferences" with deadly force at times, and their reservations about the worth of free competition are well known.
Let's let free enterprise do its job. Political pressure has no role here. The private sector must remain free and independent so that it can provide the solutions that the marketplace wants.
"Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive" -- hey, that's me!
From: the office of B.Gates:
To: AFCIO
I'd like to remind you I own 10% of General Dynamics.
Thank you for your time.
EOF.
Man this is going to be some ineresting politics.
This is what happens when military specs say things like "Must run windows"
Instead of
"Must have GUI front end"
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Okay, so you're a Mac OS 8 and a Solaris user yet you come here and tell us that you're somehow qualified to administer NT servers? And you also expect us to believe that your judgment is not biased?
Btw, how many holes does sendmail have? Have you forgotten about zlib, how about wu-ftpd?
why is /. so full of mindless zombies, who will mod up anything anti-ms?
I hate sigs.