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Richard Clarke on Microsoft security
hizzo writes "Richard Clarke, former White House cybersecurity and counterterrorism adviser, harshly critized Microsoft's security track record. 'Given their record in the security area, I don't know why anybody would buy from them.' He also called for some regulation of security for ISPs in addition to better industry self-regulation, such as disclosing QA practices and becoming more accountable for secure code. I wonder if anyone will finally start listening to him?"
This is just blatant self-PR from a guy that noone really cares about anymore...
Actually, alot of people still care about what Richard Clarke has to say. The Bush administration would like you to think that nobody cares about him, but that's because he embarassed the Bush administration in front of the whole world.
During the congressional hearings, officials from the Bush Administration kept trying to paint Richard Clarke as if he was some disgruntled mid-level manager who didn't have access to the right information, and who had no idea what he was talking about.
Lies.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
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*sings*
Rikki don't lose that number...
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Wow. On a politically charged topic, you really see the moderators go to town.
I feel like I've been making fairly consistent posts on the topic (sure, sometimes I've been a jerk, but hey - it's the Internet!), and this is what I've gotten:
Score 2
Score 3, Interesting
Score 1, Troll
Score 1, Flamebait
Score 4, Insightful
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I would suspect the moderations were fairly partisan. Maybe for Political topics, the ratings should be more like:
-1 Republican
-1 Conservative
+1 Democrat
+1 Liberal
Or... You know... The other way. =)
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