Microsoft, Monocultures, Security FUD & Other Fun

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 16, 2004 @01:46AM from the starting-the-morning-with-coffee-and-flame dept.

techiemac writes "Dan Geer, who has been mentioned on Slashdot before due to his warnings about Microsoft's "monoculture" has just been written up by AP for his warnings about the widespread use of Microsoft products and the serious security flaws that are being discovered. This story is quickly becomming big news (Yahoo is currently carrying it on their front page). For those who don't know, Dan Greer was fired from @Stake Inc for his criticism of Microsoft (they are a big client of @Stake Inc). " Somewhat related, there has been interesting reaction pieces on ORA and OSDN to a recent, some say ill-informed article run on DevX.

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Re:MS Open Source Is Fertile Ground for Foul Play by DunbarTheInept · 2004-02-16 06:53 · Score: 2, Offtopic

Reverse engineering is NOT illegal, you just have to do it carefully.

The DMCA has changed that. Now all some company has to do to make it illegal to reverse engineer their code is find a way to tie it to the topic of encryption somehow, and then *bam* reverse engineering it is now illegal. (consider DeCSS).

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