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Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-funny-stuff dept.

bahamat writes "This article explains how Microsoft was forced to yank a magazine ad by the Advertising Standards Authority. In the ad MS claims that they'll make the hacker extinct. The tagline reads "Microsoft software is carefully designed to keep your company's valuable information in, and unauthorised people and viruses out. Which means that your data couldn't really be safer, even if you kept it in a safe. Which is great news for the survival of your company. But tragic news for hackers." Does MS really think that people are too stupid to remember what happened less than 2 months ago? My favorite quote from the article is "Clarke described Microsoft's claim as "laughable". "

12 of 591 comments (clear)

  1. Re:awesoma power by bgog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While I agree with you, how do you expect such comments to be taken seriously if you post anon? hmm

  2. Re:YEAH MAN by bgog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dammit! I already used up my mod points!

  3. Re:Linux: we make manuals obsolete by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    from the because-they're-too-stupid-to-use-two-buttons dept.

    this isn't a troll, I just don't know why they have only one button. Can anyone fill me in on why?

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    YOU SUCK BALLS!
  4. A way to sell ANYTHING by Kappelmeister · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This reminds me of the time Ari Fleischer insisted at a press conference that "Nobody, but nobody, is more reluctant to go to war than President Bush." (source, emphasis mine)

    Apparently, people think that saying something enough makes other people believe it, even if it's 180 degrees from the evidence.

  5. with an article like that...... by milktoastman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    fuck my karma....I'll just post anything! What morons....that's almost as bad as disappointing the war protesters with such little civilian loss of life. sorry guys, it just wasn't convenient, better luck next time. It'll be more fun later, maybe. You might have an argument.

    I know, I know....you can switch right over from the "collateral damage" arguments to the "I guess the oil companies behind this war felt they needed someone to man the oil fields, so they didn't want that many killed" argument....

  6. Re:The claim is not misleading - it's artful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...and is fraised as such...

    You know, your intellectual credibility pretty much went out the window when you managed to so egregiously mispell a word as simple as "phrased".

  7. Re:Hackers Obsolete by Fabio+Dias · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sad part is your comment shows as (+3, Interesting).

  8. Re:linux switch ads are better by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's funny, but it's not so funny that you need to post it twice within 5 minutes.

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    Dyolf Knip
  9. Re:Anyone know where I can get a bigger copy? by Your+Average+Joe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I need it to, if someone finds one to print I need it at work as well. :-)

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    Your Average Joe
  10. Interesting and accurate article by Isofarro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Especially when the text currently reads:

    "Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'

    Type mismatch: 'Ubound' /inc/copycode.asp, line 264"

  11. in soviet russia by greenalbatros · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    HACKERS make MICROSOFT extinct

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    this sig steers like a cow. and i can prove it
  12. Re:in soviet russia by sketerpot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No no,
    In Soviet Russia Microsoft makes hackers extinct!