Windows Security Holes Go Mostly Unexploited

murky.waters writes "Wired News has an article with a decidedly different take on security holes in Microsoft Windows: Despite the thousands of known exploits and virii, most MS users aren't target of much harm, and the big guns such as Klez have had almost no effect on home users. An interesting read that, if true, challenges some common arguments."

Comments

Re:ahem...

[Nugget]

Can someone explain to me how defacing this website makes piracy less wrong? Does this mean that if I find an overlooked cgi on fsf.org that I can consequently justify violating the GPL?

Re:Exploits == Security Holes?

[dbarclay10]

Now, before you start saying "Oh, MS could easily fix that...", instead think about the real problem here. Either I don't use that feature at all, or MS has to think of every single malicious use of a feature and only allow the non-dangerous ones. Sorry, that's not a good solution. You're holding MS (or anybody else) responsible for other people's creativity.

No. I'm holding Microsoft responsible for shitty code written by people who thought they'd get big bucks after going to a three-month course at a local community college. That same code that's either unaudited or audited by somebody no more technically advanced.

There's something called "criminal negligence". Look it up. Criminal negligence is all about how, if you can't do a job right, you aren't allowed to do it at all. If you go ahead and do it anyways, and that causes some harm to some person, you're criminally negligent.