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michael
on from the does-renter's-insurance-cover-this dept.
sagman writes "Russ at NTBugtraq is proposing fines for those whose computers allow the propagation of viruses, worms, etc., knowingly or unknowingly... Russ is taking a poll on his site. Russ states in an email that he wrote this up at the request of a US Senator staffer..."
The real damage is done by Microsoft employees, these kids with purple hair who had 1.9 GPAs in college and were hired just because they're good at riddles, and their tendency to write horrible, horrible code that is incredibly insecure.
Someone once emailed me some code review and QA type data from the Web department at Microsoft (the IIS people, SQL folks, etc.) and it was absolutely horrible and a bit funny to read the kinds of simple mistakes that were being made.
It seems that Microsoft really does try to push the "innovation" envelope, but they do so at the cost of security. There are dozens of programs today with huge holes that go unpatched.
Let's hold Microsoft accountable, not the people who paid for their products (which are supposed to work).
(I don't see anyone suing Ford owners because their tires don't work properly.)
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The real damage is done by Microsoft employees, these kids with purple hair who had 1.9 GPAs in college and were hired just because they're good at riddles, and their tendency to write horrible, horrible code that is incredibly insecure.
Someone once emailed me some code review and QA type data from the Web department at Microsoft (the IIS people, SQL folks, etc.) and it was absolutely horrible and a bit funny to read the kinds of simple mistakes that were being made.
It seems that Microsoft really does try to push the "innovation" envelope, but they do so at the cost of security. There are dozens of programs today with huge holes that go unpatched.
Let's hold Microsoft accountable, not the people who paid for their products (which are supposed to work).
(I don't see anyone suing Ford owners because their tires don't work properly.)
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.