This is a general problem when you buy ready made solutions in the form of "boxes" , you cannot be fully sure of anything inside so it is basically a question of trust.
For example firewalls:
Question 1: how do you know the box firewall you bought is secure and no backdoors?
Answer: normally you do not.
Question 2: Why do majority ofpeople buy those instead of making their own?
Answer: Because it is a lot more convinient
So instead of spending time to build something, most people want to just get something that works and thus have to just trust the vendors, as they do not have the skill/time/inclanation/will etc to do it themselves.
nor care, and I have yet to see a convincing argument as to why MS should waste time, effort and resources on keeping pirates' systems up to date.
Pirates also engage in some of the most idiotic practices you can, as far as security goes. They often run files of questionable integrity, blindly. Why should MS be concerned with saving them from their own criminal actions? The best thing they could do for business is to stick it to pirates.
Actully there you are wrong, the number of people affected by the spam and DOS attacks launched from hijacked computers is getting "Quite high".
In short any unpached (or patched too but lesser scale) Windows computer connected to the net is a menace not only to themselves but also all the other network users.
To take a similar hyphotetical and slightly inflamed:) situation: lets say that there is a product recall of a car to get it's brakes fixed as under certain circumstances the brakes do not work. I am having some problems with y payment or something and they refuse to fix the brakes to my car until my payments are upto date or something. Then few days later the brakes of my car fail in the given situation and I crash into a group of school children...
This is definitely one of the dangers of doing "Research" on internet and then trying to use that to win points.
The actual figures were as below:
The actual maximum vote that Nazis got was 44% in march 1933, they got the friendship of DNVP allowing the to get majority and then drive out the other delegates by banning communists and similar steps. one thing that should be noted that this was after the drastic violence the nazis had done to tip things in their favor. Thy got about 35% in the two previous elections. All these elections were quite close to each other because of the general chaos of the weimar republic.
But the main point was the fact that people quite some source on the net as authorative and stop thinking, instead of reserch or *gasp* actual knowledge of facts we have googling..
Well.. our company just bought 2 ISeries to run ASP services to customers, instead of the PC platform we were running on before.
Though ISeries are not real mainframes ofcourse..:)
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For example firewalls:
Question 1: how do you know the box firewall you bought is secure and no backdoors?
Answer: normally you do not.
Question 2: Why do majority ofpeople buy those instead of making their own?
Answer: Because it is a lot more convinient
So instead of spending time to build something, most people want to just get something that works and thus have to just trust the vendors, as they do not have the skill/time/inclanation/will etc to do it themselves.
nor care, and I have yet to see a convincing argument as to why MS should waste time, effort and resources on keeping pirates' systems up to date. Pirates also engage in some of the most idiotic practices you can, as far as security goes. They often run files of questionable integrity, blindly. Why should MS be concerned with saving them from their own criminal actions? The best thing they could do for business is to stick it to pirates. Actully there you are wrong, the number of people affected by the spam and DOS attacks launched from hijacked computers is getting "Quite high". In short any unpached (or patched too but lesser scale) Windows computer connected to the net is a menace not only to themselves but also all the other network users. To take a similar hyphotetical and slightly inflamed :) situation: lets say that there is a product recall of a car to get it's brakes fixed as under certain circumstances the brakes do not work. I am having some problems with y payment or something and they refuse to fix the brakes to my car until my payments are upto date or something. Then few days later the brakes of my car fail in the given situation and I crash into a group of school children...
This is definitely one of the dangers of doing "Research" on internet and then trying to use that to win points. The actual figures were as below: The actual maximum vote that Nazis got was 44% in march 1933, they got the friendship of DNVP allowing the to get majority and then drive out the other delegates by banning communists and similar steps. one thing that should be noted that this was after the drastic violence the nazis had done to tip things in their favor. Thy got about 35% in the two previous elections. All these elections were quite close to each other because of the general chaos of the weimar republic. But the main point was the fact that people quite some source on the net as authorative and stop thinking, instead of reserch or *gasp* actual knowledge of facts we have googling..
Well.. our company just bought 2 ISeries to run ASP services to customers, instead of the PC platform we were running on before. Though ISeries are not real mainframes ofcourse.. :)