Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Insecure Software

Cinematique writes "Reuters reports that a California-based lawsuit alleges the Redmond software giant produces software with little concern for security and that their products are highly susceptible to, "massive, cascading failures." Should Microsoft's software be treated any differently than, say, automobiles?"

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KARMA WHORE ALERT

[Mod Me God]

This user makes a flippant one line comment and gets +5 for saying what everyone thinks already. How about some productive thinging rather than mods responding to blatant whorness.

WRONG !!!!!!

[zymano]

Capitalism and lax government under republicans with Microsoft stock created this MESS.

You could make a better OS and no one would fucking buy it.

Why ? Because of compatibility reasons. Microsofts does what other EVIL businesses do that have leverage by buying themselves onto shelf space like grocer suppliers. But with Microsoft , they buy themselves onto everyones computer with deals with the computer manufacturers. They then lock in other software companies into their OS just because they are at the top of the mountain .

This has NOTHING to do with competition making the best product.

It's a about and Evil person,Bill Gates and their tyrannical business practices that hold their market share.

Whoever modded you a 5 needs Metamoderating down and have their moderating rights revoked for good.

Re:Following their lead

[WhiteWolf666]

Its your own damn fault if you use Outlook.

Especially if you are in a high-level position like Gabe, so that you could dictate the choice of software that your company uses.

Moral questions aside, if you use Microsoft software, you have no way of knowing if you are going to be hacked, you have no way of knowing what new exploits will be discovered, and you have no legal recourse when black hats damage you or your corporation.

Come on, Gabe, you cannot possible use the excuse that "my employer" will not allow us to explore alternatives?

Or is Valve a new 100% Microsoft development house?

This is stupid

[_avs_007]

Suing MS because there was a buffer overflow exploit in Outlook, is like suing Ford, because some guy hotwired the car and stole it.

Even if I installed the best security system money can buy, the car can still get stolen by a determined theif, much in the same way, an OS will get compromised by a determined cracker/hacker.

Re:Following their lead

[sparkz]

I know of a current exploit in explorer (mshta) that can be used to download and execute any application on your computer
Have you reported it to MS?
Seriously, if this was on your-fave-os, I'm sure you would have reported it to them as soon as you could replicate it... have you reported it to MS?
If not, like the recent SSL bugs reported, they won't be able to fix them.

I'm all in favour of allowing a vendor to fix their problems, but bashing them for a problem you know but haven't even bothered telling them about is something else!

If you had told them about it last month, and still got no answer, then fair enough, I'd say slag them off on /. and anywhere else. But to expect a vendor to "know" what your friend discovered is unrealistic.
Do you have the same standards for libssl?