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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". "
Maybe someone should bring forth the litany of previous Unix exploits? Samba, Sendmail, various RPC flaws, telnet, shell issues, etc...
Windows has had some security issues lately, but Unix is a complete joke as far as security. The only things it does have going for it are:
a.) It's ancient so most of the flaws are finally worked out.
b.) Nobody _gives a shit_ about Unix so there aren't a lot of hackers out there targetting it.
Hacker,cracker, whatever....
JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! IT'S GETTING OLD!!!
Don't people have better, more relevant or interesting things to use their mod points on?