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Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003

Posted by simoniker on from the pane-shattering-trackback dept.

thebatlab writes "Help Net Security has an interesting look at security in Windows during 2003, with various blurbs from related parties at Microsoft as well as security 'bigwigs' such as Russ Cooper. It's interesting to read the comments from external parties, as they tend to be very reasoned comments and don't simply attack away over recent 'indiscretions' and 'security lapses' Microsoft has had over the year."

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  1. It's Pingular, so it should read: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *rimjob*

  2. +5 FUNNAY LOL OMG M$ WINDOZE IS TEH SUXOR! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HAHAHAHLOLOLWTFOMG!

  3. Johnny Torch by SoSueMe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Break out the asbestos suits boys:

    Flame On!

  4. Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot: The antidote to well reasoned comments.

  5. Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man! Is my ass really that fat? I let myself go. I really gotta hit the treadmill.

  6. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Windows is secure!

  7. Petition by Pu'be · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, Look'e at this http://www.petitiononline.com/Grammar/

  8. Well the problem with that is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dbblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

  9. Thank you by sharkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Over the last week, I've had a cold, had to put up a new mailbox in the snow while fighting said cold, gone to work, dealt with management, spent a Saturday with an SO with PMS, been told that standing at a football game is a bad thing, and driven on Indiana's highways.
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    I REALLY needed a laugh.

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  10. I Stand By... by Broken_Windows · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My Nick.

  11. Where is the credibility? by Inoshiro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "here comes the Slammer worm and all hell brakes loose as thousands of computers are infected worldwide.."

    Oh no, my breaks are braking .. or is it that my brakes are breaking? How can I seriously read this article if they can't even write properly?

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  12. Re:Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003 by Moloch666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You realize that lists many random scripts and a bunch of different programs. I'm sure if a list of exploits were compiled for every bit of software that runs on windows, it would be quite large. The funny thing is that a lot of the software from the site you linked runs on windows.

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