Microsoft Invites Black Hats into Vista

gtzpower writes "Microsoft is inviting hackers to 'Take Your Best Shot' at Vista. 'You need to touch it, feel it,' Andrew Cushman, Microsoft's director of security outreach, said during a talk at the Black Hat computer-security conference. 'We're here to show our work.'" From the article: "A security team with oversight of every Microsoft product — from its Xbox video game console to its Word program for creating documents — has broad authority to block shipments until they pass security tests. The company also hosts two internal conferences a year so some of the world's top security experts can share the latest research on computer attacks." Essentially a tie-in with an article we discussed yesterday.

Comments

Re:why invite the black hats in?

[I'm Don Giovanni]

Then again, maybe you could just use the Microsoft logo (and the normal Windows logo for Windows topics), like a site with credibility would do. Just a thought.

Re:Why not just start with the basics?

[bobintetley]

chroot jails are a BSD thing, actually.

Actually, the BSD jail is far more than a chroot. Chroot has been available under Linux/Unixes for a long time.