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Microsoft Drops Next-Generation Security Project [updated]
grooveFX points to this CRN article which starts "After a year of tackling the Windows security nightmare, Microsoft
has killed its Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB)
project and later this year plans to detail a revised security plan for Longhorn,
the next major version of Windows, company executives said..." grooveFX writes "Glad to see they actually listen to the gripes from the media and users." Update: 05/05 19:13 GMT by T : phil reed writes "Oops. According to this article on Microsoft Watch, Microsoft really isn't giving up on NGSCB (aka 'Palladium') after all. Microsoft spent much of Day 2 of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here refuting a published report claiming the company has axed its Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security technology."
If this goes well, they plan to cancel all security projects.
They have cancelled security? What next? Will Microsoft stop supporting Linux? Oh no!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Their Next Generation security project was doomed from the start once Lore kidnapped Data and took his place in the landing party.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
..that the "revised security plan" will make heavy use of the recent advances in obscurity technology.
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Microsoft has security projects?
Trusted computing, therefore, facilitates reduction of competition.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
They changed their logo. Now it's just 'Computing'.
Microsoft also lowered the hardware requireements for longhorn from 2x4ghz procs to a single 1ghz proc, citing the decrease in complexity of drm will free up much of the needed processing power.
I tried for 5 years to come up with a clever sig...only to realize that I am not clever.
What we need is "No Executive" security technology. Even the greatest security tools can be hogswaddled by the pointy hair types.
[/obligitory upper-management jab]
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
Like the airlines think Saftey, Saftey, Saftey - Microsoft need to adopt the slogan.. Security Security Security
...
And some sort of chant -- maybe a dance
Like the airlines think Saftey, Saftey, Saftey - Microsoft need to adopt the slogan.. Security Security Security
Let's hope they get past "developers developers developers"...
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Handy Travel Hint: avoid flying on any airline whose motto is "Saftey, Saftey, Saftey"
The witch is dead, but will likely by replaced by an ogre or a kraken.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
This could be the start of "Say something nice about Microsoft day!"
:)
That kind of talk will get you banned from Slashdot
In a recent interview with WinEvil.com, Gates confirmed, "Yeah, it [the NGSCB] just wasn't eeeevil enough for us. We've got a history of setting the evilbar pretty high, and our current efforts were "extremely irritating" at best... We're looking for true unadulterated mindbending evil, and we know our customers won't settle for anything less. Give us a chance -- you won't be disappointed."
Gates then proceeded to use a Windows XP CDRom as a prism to magnify his own inner evil until it was focused enough to melt a cute puppy, drawing appreciative applause from the crowd of evildoers. The crowd then had a huge WindowsXP InstallFest and cut off their own testicles in preparation for the comet Zurg's arrival to take them away.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
The'll just insert a coupon with Longhorn saying that users will get the Free Security upgrade when Half Life 2 ships, or when someone believes the 'free beer - tomorrow" sign, whichever comes first
Like they ever had a security project in the first place
(In MS Meeting Room 30 feet below Earth's surface)
PHG (pointy hair guy): Right. We killed the old plan.
MSGurus: Hooray!
PHG: Everyone gets a bonus.
MSGurus: Hooray!
PHG: We have a better plan.
MSGurus: Hooray... we think.
PHG: Because we spent so much time and money on the old plan...
MSGurus: Booooo!
PHG: We have to implement the new time in a fraction of the time. Bill thinks six weeks is plenty. Meeting adjourned.
IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV
>Like the airlines think Saftey, Saftey, Saftey - Microsoft need to adopt the slogan.. Security Security Security
I thought Microsoft's slogan was
"Developers developers developers" ?
http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Not knowing spanish (and, like the stupid American I am, automatically assuming it IS spanish), how do you pronounce Juarez? If Juan is essentually pronounced with the ju becoming a 'w', is his name 'warez'?
Problem is, people (particularly Windows users) buy features before they buy security.
IMHO that's because Windows users have given up on getting security. B-)
With a choice of an insecure platform with fewer features or an insecure platform with more, of course they'll pick the one with more. Just think: They might actually be able to get something done between crashes, infections, and reinstalls.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
they plan to provide DRM kits to script kiddies so all viruses are signed, and thus acceptable to Windows.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
A Safety Dance? Hold onto your hats!.
Anonymous Kev
Proudly posting as AC since 1997
(Finally got a dang account in 2004)
Tigerdirect is selling what they claim to be "The Next Level of Computer Security for Your Home or Office". I think their definition of computer security may be a bit different than yours or mine however, as one of the major selling points is a "-110 decibel siren to sound alarm and scare off intruders". Imagine that bad boy going off every time the machine is violated by the Windows worm de jour! ;)
They're just renaming it again. The new name will consist entirely of characters from an obscure font containing only symbols that have no pronounceable names to make sure no one will be able to talk about it.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
The nexus was to be the kernel of an isolated software stack that was designed to run inside the standard Windows environment.
I believe they will be using Kernel version 2.6.14 for maximum security.