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Microsoft Says "War on Terror" is Overblown
SlinkySausage writes "The endless security measures imposed on society as a result of the "war on terror" have become overblown and intrusive, according to Microsoft Redmond senior security analyst Steve Riley. He made the comments in a talk at day one of Tech.Ed Australia about software security. Riley also fessed up that Microsoft cocked up XP from a security perspective. "We let you down with XP," he said.
Microsoft also showed a very interesting new desktop virtualisation technology called SoftGrid, which allows applications to be virtualised individually, rather than a whole OS. Think Virtual PC or VMware, but instead of virtualising an OS, just a single application is virtualised."
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It feels like that we've forgotten what it is really like to be a nation threatend with annihilation. In the 1940s our country nearly didn't make it and we have the United States to thank for that as much as our own heroic airmen. That was a time where the agressors really could have destroyed our way of life. Yet we did not yield in the face our adversity. We held our resolve!
Not to mention knowing what to do with foreign agents when caught. Don't stick them in prison -- either shoot them or "turn" them whenever possible and use them to feed the enemy with disinformation.
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The real irony is that your girlfriend IS a vista app!
But don't let the facts get in the way of your hippie dream.
Klingon Software is not released, it escapes, inflicting terrible damage onto the enemy as it does
Klingon Software is not released, it escapes, inflicting terrible damage onto the enemy as it does
Calling the Islamic Terrorist threat overblown is burying one's head in the sand. Just yesterday alone:
8/7/07 ( Gaza, Pal. Auth. ) - Two Gaza children, ages 6 and 8, are killed by a rocket fired at Israel by a Palestinian Islamic group.
8/7/07 ( Yala, Thailand ) - A man is murdered and his body burned by Islamic separatists.
8/7/07 ( Pattani, Thailand ) - A roadside bombing by Muslim radicals leaves two Thai soldiers dead.
8/7/07 ( Banadir, Somalia ) - A mother and her 11-year-old daughter are killed when Islamists detonate a roadside bomb.
8/6/07 ( Pulwama, India ) - A civilian is abducted four days earlier and murdered by the Mujahideen.
8/6/07 ( Yala, Thailand ) - Muslim terrorists gun down a 61-year-old civilian on his way home.
One week of terrorist attacks (July 28 to August 3):
Jihad Attacks: 64
Dead Bodies: 354
Critically Injured: 514
And for the month of July:
Jihad Attacks: 322
Countries: 17
Dead Bodies: 2211
Critically Injured: 2674
These killings have been going on for years and are getting worse. The stated objective of the Islamic Terrorists is the total subjugation of all western society. It's a holy war, but we didn't start it. Just as we didn't start the Crusades (read your history). These are not the actions of a religion of peace. These are the actions of evil, murdering fucktards who consider mercy a weakness. They don't have any problems murdering women and children. Any action is justified if it's for "Allah".
I say to the Muslim world, get your fucking world in order and deal with these bastards before western society wakes up. Because when we do wake up and realize what the hell is going on, we are going to terminate you with extreme prejudice and we won't be making any distinction between extremist and moderates (especially since moderates don't seem to exist).
I expect this to be moderated down as flamebait. Some people don't wish to face reality.
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> You hit the nail right on the damned head, and so many people are so pathetic at math and are afraid of stupid things noone can
> seem to change our course of paranoid overreaction.
No, you want desperately to believe we still live in a world where we aren't at war with Radical Islam. Some of us have seen it coming since the fall of the Shah of Iran and nasty events that happened afterwards. More still understood it by the time of their first attempt on the WTC. Only an idiot could fail to take the hint after 9/11.
Just because we have incredible LUCK doesn't mean we don't have enemies. 9/11 could have easily had a bodycount 5-10 times what happened. We got lucky. Much like the collapse last week of the I35W bridge. Rush hour traffic, including a packed school bus and it all goes splat into the Mississipi river. Single digit bodycount so far. Luck. Give praise to whatever higher being you prefer when it happens but if you expect yer invisible friend to make it happen like that every time you are eventually going to get the piss shocked out of ya. After all, God helps those who help themselves.
But forget all that, 9/11 wasn't about the bodycount. The point of terrorism isn't to KILL, it is to TERRORIZE and 9/11 succeeded beyond UBL's wildest deranged dreams. Be thankful we had a Republican President AND Congress who had the balls to ram a tax cut over the wails of the Dems or the economic shock would likely have thrown us into a full scale depression. If the same number had died in some horrible accident it would have had little effect on the country at large.
That is the difference. We can withstand accidents and natural disasters. We learn from them, our engineers build to avoid the same thing in the future and we go on. But intentional acts of War aimed at random have the potential to end our Civilization. The are only two ways to deal with that threat, end it at the source or become a Security/Police State. As a sane person I of course prefer ending it at the source.
> but it shows without a doubt that "all terrorists are muslim" is such a load of horse shit, and the most of the major
> terrorist attacks up until recently were in fact not muslim at all
Not really. Since the end of the IRA name one major terrorist organization that isn't composed of adherents to the "Religion of Peace"? Ok, lets pretend you aren't a total loss and you could think of a couple of regional ones like the Tamil Tigers or Shining Path. Now name one playing on the world stage and/or launching attacks into the 1st World. (i.e. anything the US need worry about) Name one major terrorist attack, successful or unsuccessful, in the last decade that didn't involve the Religion of Peace. It is hard enough to name an attack of any scale that didn't involve someone named after their "Pedophile Prophet".
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but damned near all terrorists ARE Muslim. And most of the non-terrorist Muslims are either afraid of the terrorists are agree with them to a degree, only lacking the personal courage to join the Jihad or agreeing with their goals but disliking their methods. It's a serious problem. We had better face it head on and find a better way of dealing with it than the default answer we will end up being left with if we don't. Because in the end, Ann Coulter's "Invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christanity" would WORK and if we get panicked into it by a few more successful attacks we will probably do it. We would regret it a generation or two later but ask the Native Americans how much that regret that worked out in tangible benefits.
And now back ontopic.
It figures that the Corporation most identified with cluelessness regarding security would be the first to retreat into a pre 9/11 mindset. Me, I'm more "Mad Eye Moody" in my outlook towards security. Constant Vigilence!
It isn't paranoia when they ARE out to get ya. The only sphere where Microsoft should be addressing security i
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