Slashdot Mirror
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!"
Why does microsoft not eat it's own dogfood? As a network administrator
I'm contstatly struggling with rights on workstations. I know that MS
gives admin right to all of it's own users. (I live in seattle I've seen
it.) But I can think of no security hole larger then giving out rights
to users who *SHOULD* not need them.
There is a laundry list of applications written *by* Microsoft that do
not work properly without additional rights.
This has been true sense NT 3.51. How did this happen? Upgrading to
longhorn it not a soulution. If I worked for Microsoft this would be
my first priority. Take away rights, fix existing applications.
"think of it as evolution in action"
My Question
Why don't you open up your source? I have an analogy to Open and Closed source:
With closed source, you are in a room full of razor blades everywhere and you are blindfolded. With Open Source, you are in a room full of razor blades everywhere and you are NOT blindfolded, so you can see where the exit is and perhaps avoid getting too cut up.
Which is really safer, closed or open source? Would you rather be blindfolded?
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
It would be nice to see the questions that don't get answered. It would be interesting to see if some questions get glossed over or ignored because of some inherant design flaw.
Maybe someoen would make a lost of all the questions and group all the simular ones together in order to create somethign like this. I guess microsoft is feeling the heat from other vendors stating that microsoft isn't as secure as thier products.
They will ignore everything and give generic answers to worthless questions such as "how do I secure my home computer". The answer will probably be something like "use the microsoft firewall and the microsoft anti-spyware program, and a microsoft antivirus program on your geniuine microsoft windowxs xp operating system".
Nothing to see here, move along.
Come on, does anyone really think that Microsoft is going to select any of the tough questions that they really don't want to address? This is a sham. It gives them a way to say that they responded to users concerns, when in reality they will pick and choose things that can make them look good or give them a chance to attack open source. The more people who participate in this sham the more it servers their purposes.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
How can you be betraying your feduciary responsibilities to shareholders by delaying products in the name of security, which history has proven that your corporate customers don't give a damn about anyway.
To avoid shareholder lawsuits of you not acting in what has historically been shown to be the best for your shareholders, why don't you return to your security-be-damned buggy strategy and return your stock to the glorious heights it once held?
Microsoft is full of brilliants people with good ideas and good intentions.
However other forces within the company are sometimes (some will argue always) taking over. If the suits decide that they prefer more features over less bugs, or if they set impossible deadlines, good peoples aren't enough.
Microsoft apparently has fine-grained access, rights and permissions built into WindowsXP. Where are the tools to manage those permissions?
By the way - HOME users need those tools, too. They would (could) go a long way to preventing zombification.
You're looking for quotes? See my journal.
That would be "the truth". The truth about Microsoft is unparalleled bashing grounds.
--
make install -not war