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MS Invites Security Questions
daria42 writes "Microsoft is inviting ZDNet readers to submit security-related questions online to a team of Microsoft security gurus. Microsoft's Ben English and his team will take questions online until the 30th of May. A selection of questions and answers will be published by ZDNet starting from the 6th of June. Submit your questions starting now!"
We should show them the /. effect and send nothing but linux security questions on how to fortify your linux distro ;-)
The Technomancer
"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."-
Slashdot asks what kind of story will really bring the M$ bashing to an all time high?
How do you keep your jobs?
I'm assuming you've got some excellent blackmail material on someone in HR but I'd like to know for sure.
You obviously get some kind of referrer bonus for sending people to their site. I count three links to shinyfeet.com in your post.
And really, who the hell would want an email address with "ShinyFeet" in it?
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How on earth did that get modded "Informative"?
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
Based on past performance, the MS security gurus should be asking questions of the general public.
what does that popup box that says "All your base are belong to us" mean?
And what does it mean by "Finished downloading software" when I click on the link to confirm that email that I got from my bank?
My friend says I'm a zombie, but I haven't noticed any hair falling out - why is this?
my question I keep getting this strange error message "0-\/\/-/\/-3-|) by Cowboy Neal, He Be 1337 hax0r " is that a security threat that I should worry about?
If they're guru's... why are there still issues after hundreds of "fixes" over the years?
The same reason Linus and hundreds of other people still do patches to Linux. No software is truly finished and secure. Not even Hello World. There's a really nasty buffer overflow in that one. I don't even know why people still use it.
Linux is really boring from an os standpoint. Now Plan 9......
Dear microsoft: WTF?
Thank you.
You ask us "How can you be betraying your fiduciary [konqueror spell check used, thank you] responsibilities to shareholders by delaying products in the name of security ... why don't you return to your security-be-damned buggy strategy and return your stock to the glorious heights it once held."
Don't worry, our future products (TM) will always be buggy. The only problem is that we are out of start-ups to screw out of mature programs because all the developers and startups are now geared to Linux, that evil unAmerican cancer that's draining the life blood out of the stocks you were so foolish to buy from us. In time, if you click your heels together three times and chant, "No stock is better than Microsoft stock," we promise that you will feel better. This works remarkably well for our software users and is the basis of our famous $50/hour phone support. If you are really lucky, hardware manufacturers will collude with us to lock our Linux and all other software, leaving nothing but buggy junk for those without keys. At that time Microsoft will internally switch to Linux and our relative productivity will dynamically soar, and the predicted dinosaur domination will be a reality.
Have a nice day.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.