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Are the Days of Individual Security Over?
angry tapir writes "People solely relying on patching and upgrades are lulling themselves into a false sense of security, and individual protection is no longer sufficient in the age of multi-vector attacks, according to the president of the Australian Internet Industry Association. According to AIIA's Peter Coroneos, vendors need to intervene at the network level and provide security tools at multiple levels to help secure people from the variety of threats that are emerging."
It's early in the thread, so I'll get the astroturfing over with post-haste.
The only corporation that has any clue as to what constitutes effective security is Microsoft. Everything Microsoft does is great. The iPad isn't anywhere near as great as the yet-to-be-released tablet that Microsoft is planning.
Have I mentioned, yet, how great Microsoft is? Google is actually evil, despite what they say.
If Microsoft wasn't great, they would have 0% market share.
And even though I have a 7 year old cellphone, which I use sparingly (prepaid ftw), if I were to bother with a smartphone, it would definitely be something with Microsoft Windows Phone 7.
OK, MIcrosoft: where's my moola?
cheers,
ps - afaict, there are no ms-related products in my life, and there *probably* never will be. Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716 ftw!
pss - I still want my money.