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."

Comments

don't worry

[nomadic]

"We let you down with XP,"

No you didn't, that implies that we had expectations of you.

Re:What's smart about a false choice?

[Macthorpe]

With sftp Available on Windows.

and konqueror Or Internet Explorer 7.

With real user and process separation Also available on Windows.

Re:What's the big security problem with XP?

[Kalriath]

Why the fuck is this modded insightful you idiots?

Twitter, get a real fucking source, not your bloody journal. Especially your journal with a page of comments telling you why it's all complete bullshit.