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Trustworthy Computing At One Year

Posted by timothy on from the still-an-infant dept.

ackthpt writes "One year ago Bill Gates issued forth an email directing the company to work toward Trustworthy Computing, making Microsoft operating systems, applications and services secure and reliable. Where is that effort at today? vnunet has this Q&A with Microsoft security chief Stuart Okin. Slow, steady progress seems to be the result. They've targeted Security, Privacy, Reliability and Business Integrity, but so far have had a go at Privacy. Okin indicates the strategy may take 5 to 15 years, but more immediate milestones are targeted within the next two years and focusing on reducing vulnerabilities in the next version of Windows, rather than attempting to fix 2000 or XP. I'd chalk this up as a frank and honest interview, rather than madly spun, and paints a picture of the massive cat herding effort undertaken."

6 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. first DRM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    you can't access this post unless you're running a Paladium-enabled OS.

  2. Quote from article. by Frobnicator · · Score: 5, Funny
    Craig uses the analogy of the telephone: You can unplug a telephone and move it to another room and plug it in, and 99.9999 per cent of the time it will work.
    He must buy terrible telephones.
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    //TODO: Think of witty sig statement
  3. trustworthiness through obscurity by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    What we need to do is raise that bar and make sure these vulnerabilities are very obscure.

    They're not going to fix the bugs, they're going to hide them underneath a new GUI layer.

    --
    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  4. Mission statement. by tarquin_fim_bim · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Trustworthy Computing is a vision of the future in five, 10 or 15 years

    But in the meantime we shall vigorously pedal all the buggy shit we can, and still claim: "It's the most secure yet"

  5. Overview of article by LittleBigScript · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even telephones fail.

    There are four pillars in computing to us. We are activaly pursuing one of those.

    We have billion customers and only a few tens of thousands of employees to fix there problems.

    We may fix most of our security problems in say, 10 to 15 years.

    Some people dislike us and we are ok with that...we're still quite rich.

    You can fool all of the people some of the time,etc,etc...

    No one is 100 percent secure. It is impossible.

    Our goal is 100 percent security, and we think we can achieve that.

    One last thing, Win200 and WinXP may have security holes (we don't plan on fixing), but Win2003 will be GREAT! Well in about 10 to 15 years...

  6. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    My XP machine has never been hacked

    Use a sharper axe.