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CCIA Urges Dept. of Homeland Security to Avoid Microsoft

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the friendly-advice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Inquirer has posted an article reporting that the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security, in an open letter to Tom Ridge, secretary of the department, to avoid using Microsoft software because Microsoft's software is 'riddled with obvious and easily exploited vulnerabilities.'"

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  1. the report told them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    to use OpenBSD without a windowing environment, or any ethernet interfaces.... "most secure setup in the world" the report claimed. When the department asked about useability and productivity of these other avenues they were told "STFU n00blah and RTFM".....

  2. But what happens if by DaLiNKz · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens if SCO goes after the Department of Homeland security for using something like linux? Would it be considering terrorism?

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  3. I knew it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft supports terrorism!

  4. Re:Then what? by DASHSL0T · · Score: 5, Funny

    That must be why Apache has so many more security problems than IIS, since it is twice as widely used.

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  5. New Commercial by defishguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    2002

    Microsoft Yearly Earings $6.16 billion.
    Microsoft Cash Reserves $46 billion
    Microsoft Market Share 92% of the Desktop


    Watching Ed Black poke Microsoft with the sword of it's own making - Priceless