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MS Exec: 'Our products just aren't engineered for security'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the see-no-evil dept.

Various Microsoft news tidbits contributed by numerous readers: Phoebus0 notes that Microsoft's Vice-President in charge of Windows development states flat out that Microsoft products aren't engineered for security, absolutely guaranteeing he'll have tomorrow's Ditherati quote. Many readers submitted this Knowledge Base article stating that Microsoft is mystified by a wave of successful hacks on assorted versions of Windows (there's also a news report on this). Microsoft has another security bulletin out on the digital certificate spoofing bug that has caused them so many problems recently.

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  1. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    im not surprised.... oh.. btw.. first post?

  2. What the fuck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why Submit the fucking obvious instead of a really useful submission like this that would make it secure

  3. Duh by DaytonCIM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm...tell us something we didn't already know.

  4. I guess its time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To install Debian on my Xboxen before it gets hax0red

  5. What the hell does that have to do with anything? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously just wondering.

  6. GOATSE.CX ALERT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thats a redirect to goatse.cx. Mod parent down.

    1. Re:GOATSE.CX ALERT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you have a weird definition of goatse

  7. Mac OS X is SLOW by jchristopher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Microsoft stuff may be insecure, but at least it isn't DOG SLOW like Mac OS X.

    1. Re:Mac OS X is SLOW by jchristopher · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Try Jaguar (OS X 10.2).

      So, you're admitting that it WAS slow before Jaguar?

  8. Windoze is coming down coming down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Windoze is coming down coming down
    Windoze is coming down coming down .Net is already dead already dead
    Time to delete windoze off ur hard drive
    and sell that stupid shares stupid shares