Microsoft's Goal, Security Through Obscurity?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 9, 2002 @03:10AM from the its-been-working-great-so-far dept.

dave cutler writes "Salon has an amusing little wire article claiming that Microsoft argues that were they to provide any greater technical detail about protocols and APIs, it would make computers running their operating system far more vulnerable to cracking attacks." Update: 05/09 13:59 GMT by M : The benefit to customers of Microsoft integrating internet services into the operating system, as well as Microsoft's commitment to security, are exemplified in this article which notes yet another remote root hole in Microsoft's code.

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Re:whatever... by Hassman · 2002-05-09 03:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The quote is right genious.

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Re:whatever... by Hassman · 2002-05-09 04:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's spelled "genius".

doh!

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Re:Mirror. by jonathan_ingram · 2002-05-09 04:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Congrats on this - it's old now but I still smile every time I see this post :)

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Re:not so crazy? by Hitokage_Nishino · 2002-05-09 05:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Haha, stupid habit.