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Ballmer Touts Focus on Security

Posted by michael on from the read-his-lips-no-new-remote-root-holes dept.

kevinvee writes "Microsoft's Steve Ballmer announced a renewed focus on security at the Worldwide Partner Conference yesterday. He recognizes the fatal user flaw of not applying patches and introduced an educational plan to help correct this. Also included in his statement was a response about computer researchers who publish flaws in Microsoft products, 'I wish those people just would be quiet.' The end of the article gives unbiased coverage of some people's opinions about the latest announcement."

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  1. 'I wish those people just would be quiet.' by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!!!

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  2. Me Too... by Fapestniegd · · Score: 4, Funny

    'I wish those people just would be quiet.'

    I wish they would too. There is nothing worse than finding an exploit that gives me total access to any network I want, and then when some other chucklehead finds it, blabs all over the net, and then Network Administrators start locking down the ports I use to run willy-nilly through their network. I would have about another month to own their network before the patch comes out. But noooo, some jerkhead has to cut me off a month early. And I have to find an unknown exploit all over again.

    Maybe I should post anonymously, nah to hell with it.

  3. In other news ... by Kombat · · Score: 5, Funny
    Inside sources at Microsoft have revealed that as part of their effort to focus more on security, the next release of Windows, "Longhorn," will feature a handy "My Viruses" folder, to accompany the popular and mature "My Documents," "My Pictures," and "My Music" folders. Also, the OfficeXP assistant, Clippy, has been enhanced. Users of the next-generation leading desktop OS can look forward to Clippy popping his helpful head up from the corner and exclaiming,

    "It looks like you're writing a virus. Would you like to:
    • Initiate a DDoS attack?
    • Publish a Trojan horse?
    • Install a backdoor?"
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  4. Re:we'll focus on security .. this time we mean it by 00420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can't afford to switch from Windows

    I know. If only Linux weren't so damn expensive.

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