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Open Letter to a Digital World

Posted by michael on from the no-one's-listening-la-la-la dept.

jg21 writes "Exasperated after spending 5 hours removing spyware and trojans from his wife's Windows PC, sysadmin Chris Spencer has written an impassioned Open Letter to a Digital World. In the letter he reviews the 'elephants in the closet' - i.e. unfixed bugs and glaring security vulnerabilities - that Microsoft in his view hopes ordinary users will ignore, including some discussed in previous Slashdot stories."

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  1. Dear Sir, by kidventus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dear Sir, We have already addressed your issues. Buy a Macintosh. Love, The Digital World.

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    There is a rage in me to defy the order of the stars, despite their pretty patterns.
  2. Re:I don't get it. by mm0mm · · Score: 1, Troll
    He has a CS degree, runs Linux himself ...

    Me think she was making a lot of "friends" on Yahoo Personals using IE, without sharing her browsing history with her husband who's been busy lately.

  3. Re:Transparent installers...pfft by julesh · · Score: 1, Troll

    Note that a few months back there was a worm going around that hacked IIS web servers and dropped a spyware installation crack into all the HTML files on the server. There are probably plenty of legit sites that unknowingly install spyware on IE users' computers these days.