Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the you-can-do-it dept.
Rantastic writes "In a recent interview with Wired Magazine, Microsoft Security Program Manager Stephen Toulouse, when asked about their now 2 year old focus on security, comments "it's more of a 10-year timeline." He also reveals that he runs Firefox."
Reading between the lines
by
El
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· Score: 5, Funny
"it's more of a 10-year timeline... but my stock options will be fully vested in 5 years, so I'll be long gone before the shit hits the fan on security still not being fixed!"
--
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
When will Open Source advocates realize that it's just this sort of behind-the-times technological gaffe that will keep Linux in single-digit marketshare forever?;)
-- I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Fat lot of good it will do...
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darth_MALL
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· Score: 5, Funny
According to the Mayan Calendar We'll only get a year to enjoy it!
Re:Fat lot of good it will do...
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MooseByte
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· Score: 4, Funny
"According to the Mayan Calendar We'll only get a year to enjoy it!"
We won't even get there. I hesitate to instigate a panic, but... MY calendar runs out on Dec 31 of THIS YEAR! AAAIEEEEEE!
No Time Toulouse
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Otis2222222
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· Score: 5, Funny
The first thing I thought of when I saw the guy's name. Still cracks me up everytime I see it. Am I the only one that thought of this sketch?
Move the timeline out indefinately...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 4, Funny
If everyone is spreading viruses, it ceases to be a stigma, and becomes the accepted norm. Think of it this way:
If everyone had AIDS, you wouldn't have to be all that concerned about STDs now, would you?
New Apple add: iMac, its like a computer with a condom!
You may think that its funny that firefox doesn't support Download.Ject technology, but for the rest of us in the real world, how can we offer it as an alternative to explorer? My PHB will just say "Ignignot, I like this FireFox thing you have working on my computer. But I've read in the Wall Street Journal that it doesn't support Download.Ject. I'm afraid we simply can't afford to make this switch."
We need this feature fixed now if not sooner, otherwise we're all going to be stuck using this insecure MS offering!
When will there ever be a feature complete open source internet explorer??
-- I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
Crap like this makes me become seriously disenchanted with Slashdot.
Really?
It keeps me coming back for more...
just like Big Macs and nicotine.
Taht's not a FIX... That's a FUX
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Foofoobar
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· Score: 4, Funny
That's not a fix, that's a FUX. It looks like a fix but if you percieve a FUX to be a FIX, you're bound to get FUXED.
Seriously though, they can't fix it without removing IE from the system. You can easily get around their FUX by using a shell call... which makes this bug even scarier.
-- This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
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Stephen Toulouse also admitted he is retiring in 2010...
-- www.globaltics.net
Political discussion for a new world
"it's more of a 10-year timeline... but my stock options will be fully vested in 5 years, so I'll be long gone before the shit hits the fan on security still not being fixed!"
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
And gee, I thought that service pack 2 with a firewall that can be controlled by ActiveX was going to fix all of those holes!
Oh, wait, actually service pack 2 renders some computer unbootable, so that must be the real trick!
Sadly, Firefox isn't affected.
;)
When will Open Source advocates realize that it's just this sort of behind-the-times technological gaffe that will keep Linux in single-digit marketshare forever?
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
According to the Mayan Calendar We'll only get a year to enjoy it!
The first thing I thought of when I saw the guy's name. Still cracks me up everytime I see it. Am I the only one that thought of this sketch?
If everyone is spreading viruses, it ceases to be a stigma, and becomes the accepted norm. Think of it this way:
If everyone had AIDS, you wouldn't have to be all that concerned about STDs now, would you?
New Apple add:
iMac, its like a computer with a condom!
You may think that its funny that firefox doesn't support Download.Ject technology, but for the rest of us in the real world, how can we offer it as an alternative to explorer? My PHB will just say "Ignignot, I like this FireFox thing you have working on my computer. But I've read in the Wall Street Journal that it doesn't support Download.Ject. I'm afraid we simply can't afford to make this switch."
We need this feature fixed now if not sooner, otherwise we're all going to be stuck using this insecure MS offering!
When will there ever be a feature complete open source internet explorer??
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
Great. Linux should be ready for the desktop by then!
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
New Apple add:
iMac, its like a computer with a condom!
New add for Linux:
Linux: you can't get infected unless you get laid.
Really?
It keeps me coming back for more...
just like Big Macs and nicotine.
That's not a fix, that's a FUX. It looks like a fix but if you percieve a FUX to be a FIX, you're bound to get FUXED.
Seriously though, they can't fix it without removing IE from the system. You can easily get around their FUX by using a shell call... which makes this bug even scarier.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
when asked about their now 2 year old focus on security, comments "it's more of a 10-year timeline."
I didn't read the article. This was Bush talking about Iraq, right?
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