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Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete
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". "
Linux needs a cool commercial. http://phunny.drghetto.com/switchlinux3.swf
okay. Doesn't really have anything to do with this article (it's more of a switch ad) but it's still funny.
YOU SUCK BALLS!
whoever made up that add has to be a n00b. hackers and crackers (wich i believe is the word they ment) are smart enuf that eventually they will be able to hack it. anything is hackable, it just takes sk1llz and time. plus, this is microshaft we are talking about. i mean, they make windows for crying out loud.
> "I allege that SCO is full of it" -Linus
It's called the BSOD. If anyone tries to access your computer it kicks in. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Hackers: We make Microsoft obsolete.
Real hackers that is.. people who write Free Software.
Besides, their own development team has no clue how to track down security bugs so they actually depend on independent hackers to find them for MS.
I bet you really meant this:
Besides, their own development team has no clue how to track down security bugs so they actually depend on independent hackers to find them for MS, and then try to call them such inflammatory statements as terrorists, try to give them jail sentences that are heavier than murderers, or coerce the community into shutting up about security holes as a fix, all in the name of expanded prosperity for one company.
Some security there.
... when I tried to read the article, but somehow it does seem like it explains it all:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'Ubound'
/inc/copycode.asp, line 264
dude, check out my sig.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
We're banging our heads against the wall, but it's just good advertising strategy. Hitler once said something to the effect that people are more likely to believe massive lies than much smaller ones. Microsoft security is much like swiss cheese or Iraqi buildings or the tax code for rich people: full of holes that aren't going to get fixed unless someone really does something drastic.
As long as there is a Second Amendment, there will always be a First Amendment.