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White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows

Posted by Zonk on from the on-the-up-and-up dept.

twitter writes "The Register is reporting on an effort to bring order to the wild world of Windows patching, at least in the US Federal Government. The White House has issued a directive to federal CIOs throughout the country, issuing a call for all new PCs to use a 'common secure configuration.' 'Registry settings and which services would be turned on or off by default [are specified and] the directive calls for suppliers (integrators and software vendors) to certify that the products they supply operate effectively using these more secure configurations. "No Vista application will be able to be sold to federal agencies if the application does not run on the secure version of Vista," explained Alan Paller, director of research at The SANS Institute.'"

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  1. HAHAAH by Anon-Admin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH,,,,HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA Secure Windows, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    I wonder if the spy ware/Viruses/Trojans will run on it?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAH,,,,,HAHAH AHAHAHA

    Sorry I cant help my self.... The government wants to secure windows.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

    The only way I know to truly secure windows is to turn it off and unplug it from the network!

    HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

  2. great moments in the bush administration by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "We shall topple Saddam and Iraq will be a bulwark of^W against terror"

    (waves magic wand)

    "We shall put our best men (cough) in charge and New Orleans will be spared the worst from Hurricane Katrina"

    (waves magic wand)

    "We shall mandate that Windows be secure and it shall, simply because we say it should be so"

    (waves magic wand)

    --
    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  3. Their real problem is by JustNiz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this incorrect but nevertheless pervasive presumption that the only PC os in the world is a Microsoft product.

    Why don't they just switch to Linux? end of security problem.

  4. Re:Mandates secure windows.... by abb3w · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    what next in the agenda? Mandate water to flow upwards? Ice to burn things? Pigs to fly?

    Trying to set "pi" equal to three is a traditional passtime of Bible thumpers, and about on my expectation level for this White House.

    There are rumors that such things exist, in very special cases, but is easier to see pigs fly than to see a secure windows machine.

    This is because most geeks who try it find building a trebuchet simple and fun, with clear documentation readily available. It also usually involves less shit being thrown at your efforts to make the project blow up.

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    //Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.