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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". "
fuck bush.. fuck rumsfield... fuck them all..
fuck you.. FP
fuck colonizers...
Linux: We Make Microsoft Obsolete
Don't you people understand! M$ can make hackers obselete! They'll add 60 million more codes to already existing 60 million code base of M$ OS! Their ever bloated TCP/IP stack will be so slow that it'll be so easy to punt M$ box with a ping command and this won't be as much fun as it is now. So, naturally people will stop even messing with M$ OS, and hackers will switch hacking real, tough-to-crack operating systems like Linux and *BSD. That's M$'s devious, evil plan!!! Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
They do hand out shrink-wrapped stool samples at conventions and trade shows, now don't they?
We can all be glad that you, an all-american superhero Slashdot reading nerd, will fight until death instead of surrender when a few thousand armed Nazis invade your capital city.
YOU, my friend, would be the first to cry like a baby and raise the white flag! You pathetic Americans need a real war IN YOUR OWN FUCKING COUNTRY again.
BTW, wasn't Texas (the home of the super-brave cowboys) among the states that LOST the American civil war? So I guess I can call them surrender monkeys then?
Stop hiding behind your computer and get out more, you moron.
Well, since the add was for an OPERATING SYSTEM and not for an APPLICATION, I fail to see the relevance. And at least we dont have to hear that "linux is so secure" bullshit anymore, since there was an article here about a root-hack exploit in the linux kernel.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
Fuck you.
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.
Of what? Hackers? Maybe a scratch and sniff...
"...smells like b.o. and day old pizza..."
Seriously.. the coalition is buzy taking out a regime which shamelessly employs propaganda to control public thought. I wonder if Bill's compound is one of many 'presidential palaces' to be built. Not really intended as a troll, but the parallels are there, cult of personality and all.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I thought I did support my claims. True or false, recently (and at a fairly steady rate in the past) there have been a slew of Unix-based security flaws? What more is there to say?
.NET than anything the Unix world has.
The OpenBSD argument seems to me to resemble Microsoft's arguments back when then were bandying about their "C2 certified!" claims. Namely, an OS by itself had better be pretty damned secure - it doesn't _do_ much of anything. It's when you start piling on the applications that you start to see the issues. Hence, I'm lumping them all together. It's one big inbreed application domain of ancient Unix software running on them all.
Run MySQL on OpenBSD. Run Samba. Run sendmail. There goes your security.
Windows XP is completely secure if you get a decent administrator and you don't run anything on it. What's the point? In fact, as you allude to, Windows at a low level is a technologically superior operating system to most versions of Unix, regardless of what most of these drooling Slashdot retards claim.
The problem comes with applications, same as it does in Unix.
The numbers don't add up, either. The important web servers are still mostly running IIS. The ones in big businesses. It's sooo much easier to develop good web apps in Visual Studio
In fact, it amazes me that the Unix zealots haven't addressed the glaring reason why the world runs Microsoft. It's unavoidable.
Microsoft caters the developer, and they always have. The absolute best development tools and environment is a Microsoft environment. End of story. If Unix people spent half the time they spend bickering about Gnome and KDE maybe they'd wise up and develop The Killer Development Environment. And, uhh, nerds? It ain't Emacs.
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?