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Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War
climenole writes 'Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods,' says former White House advisor Richard Clarke in a recent book. Microsoft makes the list of risks because so many people have installed its software for critical systems.
First!
What's Microsoft? Something I have to know? o_0
Seriously, I think my 12 year old nephew has a greater handle of the computer software industry the DICK Clarke. For that matter I think Dick Clark has a better grasp of the computer industry then some trumpeting idiot who has no computer background other then what positions he was "appointed" to.
Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods,' says former White House advisor Richard Clarke in a recent book.
This is said from a guy who is part of the institution that will throw you in jail if you use gold as tender, or don't pay them to spend YOUR money however THEY see fit.
"It's a frequently used troll post. It has been completely debunked in the past several times." - by erroneus (253617)
on Thursday June 10, @01:10PM (#32525218) Homepage
Oh, really? Where, when, & how please... just because "you say it", doesn't mean you are a CREDIBLE & CORRECT AUTHORITY!
(I.E.-> Do you even have a CSC, CIS, or MIS degree to your credit? How about a CISSP certification?? Can you provably demonstrate more than 16++ yrs. of professional experience to GOOD note by others in publications in this art & science for decades now to YOUR credit/name??)
I do, by way of comparison (as well as having a respected & well noted security vulnerabilities site's data backing me as well)...
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"All of the critical bugs listed for the Linux kernel, for example, were local exploits only -- NONE were remote." - by erroneus (253617) on Thursday June 10, @01:10PM (#32525218) Homepage
LOL, first, the SAME QUESTION I asked of others here (oakgrove specifically) who are my 'naysayers/detractors' (more like the "CULT OF SLASHDOT FANBOYS/ZEALOTS Of "Open Sores/Linux/Firefox", all NOTED THIS WEEK IN INFOWORLD HERE NO LESS, lol ->
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Six More Tech Cults:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/06/07/1518216/Six-More-Tech-Cults
"Pity the fool who wanders blithely into a discussion and says, "What's the big deal with Linux? Windows works just fine." His online remains will later be hauled away in Chinese takeout boxes."
Tech cult No. 1: The Slashdot Samurai /. (Where else?)
Established: 1997
Gathering of the tribes:
Major deities: Linus Torvalds, Neil Gaiman
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Do you think you & yours are "fooling anyone" here? We ALL "know the score" & flocks of you come around "down modding" so others can't read others' posts that contradict the constant flow of "FUD" & disinformation you "anti-MS" people do here!
Trouble is, as you can see with my post going from +1 INFORMATIVE, to +2 INTERESTING, & now down to 0 (but with the "good ratings upwards" still in place in INFORMATIVE for now @ least while I post this?) Those same "/. samurai" have to resort to what I call their "last weapon" in the effete & unjustified "mod down" (as usual with my posts like these)... they only prove this point for me, everytime, lol!
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"In contrast, Microsoft's exploitable bugs are famously remote exploits meaning they can be done over a network connection." - by erroneus (253617) on Thursday June 10, @01:10PM (#32525218) Homepage
FIRST QUESTION: Does Linux and its webbrowsers run JAVASCRIPT? Yes, they do, so are they "immune" to javascript exploits?? No they are NOT, same DOM model is in place cross-platform & javascript exploits are the LARGEST SINGLE ATTACK VECTOR OUT THERE TODAY (and where does javascript run? LOCALLY W/IN A WEBBROWSERS' ENGINES!)
SECOND QUESTION: Are the remaining 11 bugs on LINUX as easily worked-around as the 2 remaining "remote exploits" (WITH LOW THREAT LEVELS Of 2 or below mind you) are on Windows
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"Windows and will never likely get used in critical government or business operations." - by erroneus (253617) on Thursday June 10, @01:10PM (#32525218) Homepage
LMAO - then, I suggest you check with NASDAQ, & see what runs their OFFICIAL TRADE DATA DISSEMINATION SYSTEMS (Windows Server 2003 last time I checked)...
APK
P.S.=> As far as businesses using Windows for "mission critical apps"? LMAO!
Man - fact is, I've made a career out of programming (OR, working in dev teams & co-programming) such systems for Fortune 100-500 companies, for the past 16++ yrs. now professionally in C/C++, Delphi, VB.NET/ASP.NET, VB6 & below (even smaller Access projects too using
"That places Windows servers below par for quite a few operations." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
LOL! Again - talk to the folks @ NASDAQ that use Windows for their 24x7 for YEARS NOW "official trade data dissemination system", ok?
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"And of course the security model is entirely too weak... you're either administrator or your not." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
WTF? This is all telling me how full of it you are (or, that you are uninformed and obviously do NOT know what you're doing with Windows security - there are MANY LEVELS OF USERS SECURITY SIDS such as Power Users as another example of user group, AND, you can even define your own user groups and individual user security levels and you could since Windows NT 3.5x afaik (I never used NT 3.1 is why but it's probably the SAME THERE TOO!)).
You spoke of *NIX: Heh, did you know, that SeLINUX is what added "MAC" to Linux? Did you know it is the SAME BASIC THING as Windows NT-based OS' ACL?? Apparently not... & who had it first? That's right: WINDOWS DID, vs. Linux! Linux had to have it "bolted on" after the NSA created it for Linux users so they had security "more on par" with Windows at this level in fact, & yes, Linux IS A FORM OF UNIX & has been classified as such no less.
(So much for this load of b.s. from you... you don't even know WHAT you speak of and act as if you do... lol!)
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"Most of the permissions are associated with the file system." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
WTF? Now I KNOW you are full of it - you need to "brush up" & see the user & group setups in Windows NT-based OS', and also secpol.msc &/or gpedit.msc... "m'kay"??
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"And since device drivers are placed at the same level as the kernel, device drivers enjoy infinite freedom of infiltration and the ability to crash the entire OS." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
The same thing holds true of other OS', and by the by? Your video example?? WAY OUT OF DATE! (VISTA, Windows Server 2008, & Windows 7 use DirectX & WPF as the display engines, and yes, they run out of Ring 3/usermode, not Ring 0/RPL 0 privelege ring levels)...
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"When Linux video drivers crash (and they do!) they don't take the whole machine with them." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
See my last paragraph above, "drink it in & digest it" + rinse, lather, repeat...
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"I had an NVidia proprietary driver failing on me and I had no access to video at all." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
See my last paragraph above, "drink it in & digest it" + rinse, lather, repeat...
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"I had to "ssh" into the machine to get in and fix it... the machine wasn't killed, just the display." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
See my last paragraph above, "drink it in & digest it" + rinse, lather, repeat...
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"I was able to fix the problem without rebooting. Can you say the same for Windows?" - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
Yes, easily, again - see the above!
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"Why would that be? Oh yeah... ring-0." - by erroneus (253617) on Saturday June 12, @03:21PM (#32551700) Homepage
LMAO, wow... ok:
Uhm, since I used Windows 7 here? The video subsystem is of DirectX nature, AND, does NOT demand a reboot (since it's in Ring 3 again, just as it was in Windows NT 3.1 - 3.51)... so, all this "b.s." from you now about Ring 0?? Inconsequential, bor