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."
In computing, the OS can have near infinite control of all the computer's resources, including all of its outgoing connections/etc, while a car only has control of itself.
You make some good points, but I don't like this one. The OS cannot possibly control everything the user does. That would be considered AI, n'est-ce pas? I don't use Linux much, so I can't be sure, but I'd bet $1 that someone here could send me an executable to my Linux machine's mailbox, and I could run that program, and it could wreak havoc/delete all my data/impregnate my pet dog.
From my post, B is the logical continuation of A, and yes "B" is my opinion. You can't prove me wrong, either, due to Windows owning 80% (statistic made up on the spot) of the desktop market share. When someone else owns the computer market like that, only then will we see the true 'security' of other O/S's.
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Re:Longhorn
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Blackknight
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apt-get install mysql-server.
Firefox is probably not his only browser...
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RichM
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He also reveals that he runs Firefox.
Yes, but that doesn't mean he doesn't run IE most of the time.
Re:Even XP SP2 is easy to tamper with
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dJCL
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I don't make the rules, I just follow them... (And I have recomended we change this, and why). But I do understand the reason this situation exists: We usually go into a client that has grown from a small business into a medium business and their old peer to peer network just cannot cut it any more. Install a SBS2003 server as a domain controller and mail/file server and join everyone to the domain with their old computer. By using the tools built into SBS2003, this is insanely easy to do, and it will import the users profile to the domain controller. The default in this situation is for the user that is being imported to be set as local admin.
Anyway...
-- On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird.
Magister mundi sum!
Windows Not Expected Secure Until 2011?!
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Pan+T.+Hose
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"Windows Not Expected Secure Until 2011, Says Microsoft."
Wow, what an optimism! Personally, I wouldn't expect Windows secure until the the next ice age in Hell--but Microsoft? Those people have got vision, genius and determination! Meanwhile, any sane admin will continue using Debian and EROS for at least 7 more years, thank you very much.
-- Sincerely, Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD. "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
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his MS timeline will be much shorter now.
That does it. He's fired.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
In computing, the OS can have near infinite control of all the computer's resources, including all of its outgoing connections/etc, while a car only has control of itself.
You make some good points, but I don't like this one. The OS cannot possibly control everything the user does. That would be considered AI, n'est-ce pas? I don't use Linux much, so I can't be sure, but I'd bet $1 that someone here could send me an executable to my Linux machine's mailbox, and I could run that program, and it could wreak havoc/delete all my data/impregnate my pet dog.
From my post, B is the logical continuation of A, and yes "B" is my opinion. You can't prove me wrong, either, due to Windows owning 80% (statistic made up on the spot) of the desktop market share. When someone else owns the computer market like that, only then will we see the true 'security' of other O/S's.
Check out the best P2P sharing website: MEDIACHEST.COM
apt-get install mysql-server.
I don't make the rules, I just follow them... (And I have recomended we change this, and why). But I do understand the reason this situation exists: We usually go into a client that has grown from a small business into a medium business and their old peer to peer network just cannot cut it any more. Install a SBS2003 server as a domain controller and mail/file server and join everyone to the domain with their old computer. By using the tools built into SBS2003, this is insanely easy to do, and it will import the users profile to the domain controller. The default in this situation is for the user that is being imported to be set as local admin.
Anyway...
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
"Windows Not Expected Secure Until 2011, Says Microsoft."
Wow, what an optimism! Personally, I wouldn't expect Windows secure until the the next ice age in Hell--but Microsoft? Those people have got vision, genius and determination! Meanwhile, any sane admin will continue using Debian and EROS for at least 7 more years, thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."