A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room
Josh Fink writes "C|Net has an interesting piece about Microsoft's Security War Room, or rather, shall I say rooms. This room came about when Microsoft's security chief, Mike Nash, had issues finding open conference rooms. The response; a dedicated room only for him and his staff to handle emergencies. "And while he was at it, why not have two? That way, the folks working on fixing a security crisis could have a little breathing room from those drafting the public and customer communications around the issue. ""
The front page still has a former M$ employee talking about bugs being denied and going unfixed for months and years. The spin room is a lie room. It's not surprising they hate GNU/Linux, free software and anything else that allows users to talk to each other openly.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Picture #4 is clearly their engineering conference room as defined in the article and without getting into specifics I expected more.
P.S. The fact it's often standing-room-only in a real crisis speaks to how cheap they went IMHO and little about chair throwing since "he" would never show up to one of these
That's just my POV... no more, no less.