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Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security
An anonymous reader writes "A panel of leading security experts Wednesday blasted Microsoft for vulnerabilities in its software, and warned that reliance on the Redmond, Wash.-based developer's software is a danger to both enterprises and national security." (Even OpenBSD might be bad if it was the only game in town.) M : The report (pdf) makes good reading.
welcome our new security overlords.
"We always consider security to be our absolute top priority," - Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall
You mean their proclivity to collect the worlds cash is a secondary mission? Wow, Windows must be like the most impregnable fortress ever, and more.
"I see no mention that it is the administrators who must share responsibility for the compromises and exploits."
What would be their fair share? According to MS, it's zero.
I should stop reading slashdot for a while and get to work.
GOOD GOD, MAN! Get a hold of yourself! Do you HEAR what you're saying?
"Ironically, Microsoft's efforts to deny interoperability of Windows with legitimate non-Microsoft applications have created an environment in which Microsoft's program interoperate efficiently only with Internet viruses," said Geer.
Gotta love it.
"Suppose you were an idiot..... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeate myself."
But every day is I-hate-Microsoft day at Slashdot.
That's why I'm here.
Why are you here?