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Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security

Posted by timothy on from the well-duh dept.

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.

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  1. *yawn* by tekiegreg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ho hum...windows security sucks....what else is new.... Though quite honestly, Microsoft should stick more to what it's good with, being a user friendly operating system where security isn't a concern for the end user. Let the *nix geeks create the ultra powerful, ultra robust secure as can be solutions anyways...

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  2. Re:Hmmm.... by twistedcubic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, not new. Maybe I'm just suffering from MS/SCO overload. I should stop reading slashdot for a while and get to work.

  3. Re:Yes But..... by the+Man+in+Black · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you know of an open soure application that will output to PDF, I'd be glad to hear about it.

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  4. Re:You're underestimating them by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because our co-eds are hot, why else?

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