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:They still don't get it by starshot · 2004-02-16 03:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

The default setting after using the XP installation program is for the initial user to be an "Administrator". No locks or controls or permissions whatsoever. At least 90% of Windows users are not going to bother to change that setting. And why should they? They dont know why they wouldnt want to be "in control" of their own computer, even if they have no idea what the hell their doing.
Re:I guess ... by rixstep · 2004-02-16 10:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X, varients of Linux so dissimilar they are just barely the same operating system

Oh PUH-leeze.