BBC Bill Gates Interview Part 2: Security

securitas writes "In the second of two parts, the BBC's Stephen Cole of the technology show Click Online interviews Bill Gates about Windows, viruses, security, spam, 'trustworthy computing', Longhorn and being anti-competitive. Sample quote: 'Certainly you can never underestimate the level of malicious people out there who are going to try to take advantage of whatever things there are. That's why we made trustworthy computing the top priority.' Streaming media in Real format is also available. [Video: Broadband | Narrowband] You can read the first half about the 'digital lifestyle' in Part 1: Bill Gates plots a Windows future. Here is the Slashdot discussion of the first part of the interview."

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Billy's "todo" list

[Kadmos]

I wonder if Billy would ever tell us something isn't a "top priority"? I can just imagine it:
"Yeah, stability, we aren't really keen on that right at the moment, actually that's way down the list."

Thanks Bill, but with an inbox full of virus I get the feeling your "top priority" isn't as "top" as we would like.

Re:Sorry Bill but you're full of shit

[QuantumG]

Switch it off (it is possible, but not straightforward) and see what breaks; it's an essential component, right or wrong.

That's not an argument at all. You wanna know what's fucked. Try debugging an application that is in no way network related on a machine that has Microsoft's firewall software enabled. It doesn't work. Why? Cause to initiate a debugging session visual studio actually sends packets out to the network adapter and back onto the machine. If you're blocking the remote debugging (say, because you don't want people brute forcing the trivial security that stops them from debugging processes on your machine) you can't even do local debugging. That's fucked behaviour and demonstrates that Microsoft really doesn't give a shit about security at all.

Slashdot Interview!!

[redGiraffe]

Hey

Can't we organize a Slashdot interview of BG? (titter :)