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Microsoft Opens Access to Vulnerability Notifications

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-doors dept.

joseph schmo writes "Microsoft has announced that it will throw open the floodgates of vulnerability notifications for everyone who wants them. Previously, it was only offering early notifications to 'Premier and other 'representative' customers,' or those customers who would sign a Non-disclosure statement."

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  1. Re:no posts and already /.'d by Fallen+Andy · · Score: 0, Troll

    More like a post emptive one. Talk about the stable door being open.. Most of us *already* spend 1+ hours trawling the usual sites -

    SANS - http://sans.org and http://www.dshield.org
    CERT - http://www.cert.org

    symantec, clamwin, kaspersky, If I go through the whole list I'll /. /.
    (sighs)

    It's not like windows update *helps*. What happens if it clashes with a download from symantec or someone else. Help my machine got 0wned by Murphy?

    (I always worry about which monster will hit the nuclear red switch first)

    Sorry, but someone has to rant, and I've just pulled an all nighter (too old at 45, don't want to play cards with Peel/George Burns yet)

    Somebody go nuke the MS campus and start again heeding Don Knuth's famous words about code being lost and ending up much better for the re-write...

    Mark me a troll please. (Does this *always* work?)