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Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers
techmuse writes "According to internetnews.com, Microsoft is giving its premium customers early warning about vulnerabilities and patches. Those of us who aren't lucky enough to have such a relationship with Microsoft may find ourselves at greater risk than premium customers as a result."
Kindof like the paid customers using slashdot who get a chance to read the clicky links before it dies.
Let me guess another potential revenue stream for MS?
Security through $$$
another Roadkill on the Information Superhighway
Well, I updated Firefox today. How about you?
We are all equal, just some of us are more equal than others.
1. Become premium customer
2. Get early notification of new vulnerability
3. Write exploit to target non-premium customers
4. Profit!
This isn't so bad, it just means that the premium customers get to beta test the patches for the rest of us!
To the making of books there is no end, so let's get started
Those of us who are lucky enough to have no relationship with Microsoft may find ourselves at even lower risk than premium customers
don't tell this to ./ crew.
they may think it's a good idea and provide news first for subscribers..
> Bugtraq is almost always ahead of microsoft where it comes to vulnerabilities in their software. Why in the world would I pay Microsoft to tell me what might be wrong tomorrow when bugtraq will tell me what's wrong today? Does anyone have an experience where MS came out with vulnerabilities first?
Maybe their Premium customers get to hear the excuses first.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
... GM announced today that a new "premium" warranty is available for it's vehicles. Vehicle owners who purchase this new warranty (Only $500, NDA required) will receive recall notices regarding vehicle roll-overs and potential explosions a full month before vehicle owners that do not have the new warranty option.
Had no choice, try finding a portable without Windows!
We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. - Steve Ballmer
The plain old user side of me doesn't see anything that will affect him.
Exactly. It's not like they were telling us about the holes in a timely manner before.
the screen "Running Windows for the first time" should have been warning enough.
what part of "fuck you! pay me!" didn't you understand
You need people like me so you can point your fuckin fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So what that make you? Good?
That's the way it is. You can find out which group you're in a simple manner: Call for a pizza, and call for a cop. See which one gets there first.
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
just came in his own pants
Better in his own than in mine...
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
Just wait until the fat guy in the butterfly costume moves in!!
The old citizen fire brigades, where people in small towns pitched in, in mutual support, makes me think of a civic Open Source.
:P
In what context? No girls allowed?
...The National Weather Service has announced it will offer early warnings for natural
disasters such as tornadoes and earthquakes to subscribers of its new "Stay Alive Platinum" service.
I am offering a low-cost service to users of Microsoft products. For a mere $5, you will receive a notice that says:
WARNING -- Your product is riddled with security holes!
There, now people can be warned.
Hurry, send in your money now! Otherwise you won't receive notice that Microsoft products are vulnerable!
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, but this is just more anti-Microsoft FUD from slashdot. Remember boys and girls, Microsoft == evil, Bush == evil. Make sure you tow the line with your liberal/Linux groupthink and you'll rack up the karma. Christ, you'd think the readers would have caught on by now and stopped reading the leftist mouthpiece that is slashdot. Moving slightly off-topic, Dick Cheney needs our help. He's running a little low on funds and we'd all appreciate it if you'd make a donation. Just make the check out to Halliburton Inc. Word out on the street is that the first fifty donators get a gmail account. Think technology, people, think technology.
Dear Valued Microsoft Customer,
As part of our increased security efforts, we are warning you in advance of the following exploits slated for next week:
35 Internet explorer related exploits
13 DCOM exploits
8 RPC exploits
683 Unknown exploits
Please check windowsupdate over the course of the next few months for security fixes.
PS: You can secure yourself from these exploits now by upgrading your version of Windows for a low price of $199.