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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.
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As much as I have great respect for the authors, why does the word Hypocrisy spring to mind....
This is just Ed Black--a consultant for Sun and Oracle with a history of slamming Microsoft on behalf of his clients--using a forum to once again go after Microsoft. Ed Black ain't no security expert. He's a lobbyist. And what the heck has @stake done to be deemed a leading security firm? Ooh. They're consultants for IBM. (http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.com/2003/jun/di gest05.shtml) Imagine that! IBM, Oracle and Sun bashing Microsoft.
This "analysis" is just a load of crap from Microsoft's competitors looking to get a piece of the defense-contracting pie.
Nice spin. If the study had shown the opposite conclusion and the circumstanes were switched, your tune would be entirely different. It's called bias.
"Sufferin' succotash."