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MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available
BenBenBen writes "The head of Microsoft's security business and technology unit states that Windows is never vulnerable until a patch appears, and that releasing patches is what causes exploits to be developed. Good quotes: 'We have never had vulnerabilities exploited before the patch was known', and '[he] could only think of one instance when a vulnerability was exploited before a patch was available'. Erm..."
"The Earth is flat."
:-)
"The Sky is green."
"Earth is the center of the universe."
Other ridiculous statements that have also been proven false.
So, let me get this straight, Windows will become more secure if Microsoft stops issuing patches?
Sakes alive, the Microsoft spin machine has been well oiled this morning!
ChaoticChaos
"If Windows wasn't vulnerable until the patch was released, why was the patch released in the first place???"
He said tools were available that compared patched and unpatched versions of Windows to help vandals and criminals work out what was different.
"The guys who write the tools would not consider themselves to be criminals by any measure," he said, "but the tools are also being picked up by people with criminal intent."
I guess that explains why Windows doesn't include a "diff" function...
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
In related news, the Mayo Clinic has announced that if we eliminated cancer treatments, we would eliminate cancer.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
So, instead of poor programming it's incompetent management?
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but copyright will always protect me.
I love how people with vested interests are called 'experts'
thhhhhhhhhtttt *choke* *gag* "ahhhhhhh" So as I was saying, hackers haven't found any of these flaws and exploited them before they were patched. Man, this is some strong crack, I almost believe what I said, myself"
And how do these fine experts actually know there aren't, at this moment, flaws being exploited left and right? Ah, they're experts, of course!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
"Bullshit" doesn't begin to do justice of the level of falsehood present here. We're talking about taking the very essence of falsity, distilling it over the flames of ignorance, condensing it within intestinal walls of monumentally bovine intellectual apathy and sponsoring a college kegger with the elixir-excremento obtained therefrom.
"Almost all attacks against our software are against the legacy systems," he said.
So is that what they're calling WindowsXP now?
"The infidels packets are slaughtering themselves at the ports to our OS"
"There are no exploits against windows, they are all lies from the so called Open Source community"
"We removed the Windows Update site to better serve our loyal followers."
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Yeah...I hate paying for those damn Linux upgrades.
I don't try to be right, I just try to make people think
Those people are Amateurs.
The latest kernel is 2.0.40, as everyone should know.
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Fellowship 9/11
"Almost all attacks against our software are against the legacy systems ..."
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Am I the only one who remembers a few exploits that 95/8 were immune to because of innovations in new OSs? I mean, just a little thing like MS.Blaster. Probably didn't make the news
Xbox reviews.. We think they're funny.
In related stories, it has been revealed that firemen cause fires, policeman cause crime, and the good folks at Symantec have written all the viruses.
Film at 11:00 (just after the anchorman tells us about all of the muggings he committed).
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Could the mean that Microsoft as a Business exists moving in time backward. This explains Microsoft quick profits and good business decisions back in the 80's and over now in the 2000's a younger and less experience Microsoft is making more mistakes. and having a little more competition to deal with.
I don't know about you but I confused myself.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
**"Only Microsoft finds exploits"**
Or is it the other way around ?
say [pun]"Only Microsoft exploits exploits"[/pun]...
I think the other way around would read "Only exploits find Microsoft."
Seems more probable that way...
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