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Microsoft Exploit Predictions Right 40% of Time
CWmike writes "Microsoft today called its first month of predicting whether hackers will create exploit code for its bugs a success — even though the company got its forecast right just 40% of the time for October. 'I think we did really well,' said Mike Reavey, group manager at the Microsoft Security Research Center (MSRC), when asked for a postmortem evaluation of the first cycle of the team's Exploitability Index. 'Four of the [nine] issues that we said where consistent exploit code was likely did have exploit code appear over the first two weeks. And another key was that in no case did we rate something too low.' Microsoft's Exploitability Index was introduced last month."
Microsoft Exploitability Threat Level Indicator is a series of color codes starting from Dazzling Arctic White to Heart of Dick Cheney. Though exact number of these colors is considered a secret, from the past announcements we deduce there are at least 22 million of them.
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sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
We would be delighted to become subjects of the crown again, but we doubt that her majesty could afford all the cameras that her subjects are so accustomed to.
PS. The Irish make better beer than you do, and soccer still sucks.
This is my sig.
It's like running your own car into a pole, providing the mechanic with your estimate of the damages and claiming you were right when he only overcharges you by 60%.
In Soviet Russia meme tires of you!
Okay.....It is like predicting you will get hit by a VW Bug crossing the street,and instead a Mac Truck nails you before you even get off the curb and drags you twenty feet. With a four out of ten pretty much the only thing they got right was they were going to get hit and it would hurt.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
With the exception of points 7. and 9. it all seems quite reasonable.
Maybe one day you'll learn to drive on the right side.
And vinegar is acceptable on salad only, not potatoes.
By the way, I live in Continental Europe and my ancestors, at the time you were wearing animal furs and piling rocks in bizarre patterns, were building aqueducts.
So, in the end, Her Majesty, please
1. learn to drive
2. learn to cook
3. understand that fox hunting isn't a sport
4. stop using that absurd currency that is the pound sterling
Based on their success rate, they should flip a coin instead, then they'll be at 50%. That's what everyone's laughing at.
Actually, in that case I think it's more useful to know where the lifeboat is!
Alas, "yeild" doesn't seem to be in the American psyche anymore.
It's also not in any dictionary that I'm aware of either. Yield is though. Sorry, couldn't resist :)