As much fun as it is to lambast Microsoft for this kind of thing, the types of exploit that have been "exposed" recently are very difficult to predict in advance (i.e. use of software features in unexpected ways).
It's a little like blaming Boeing for letting their aircraft be flown towards tall buildings...
Speaking as a professional software developer, I have a manager for exactly this reason - if we f*ck up (for whatever reason, but usually because deadlines mean testing doesn't happen), the project manager gets the blame.
In a perfect world software developers unit test their code, and then testers run through a test plan that was written before development began. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world - which is why ideas like "extreme programming" came about.
I normally don't take that much notice of the various security announcements, because most people cause their own trouble on the internet through their mode of behaviour.
These news reports really are starting to make me wonder what other holes there are in Microsoft products.
You could use the same kind of argument to give credit for lots of things.
There must be some kind of positive link between obesity, depression, cancer, salt, UFOs, and porn on the net, but I'm not quite sure without loads more research - particularly on the latter.
Isn't it funny how all the western countries look down their noses at China and it's state control of information.
And here we all are using various open source software applications...
(I'm not going to join the dots here between communist ideologies and open source, but it does amuse me how jingoistic and easily manipulated western audiences seem to be these days).
(this is the point where I jump off the fence and start running - pulling splinters out as I do so)
This story just served to remind me how pointless it is to try and enforce law on the internet.
Perhaps the various copyright enforcement agencies would do better if they changed themselves into education agencies.
It doesn't take a genius to understand that piracy kills the product being pirated. Most people like the own the "genuine" article too though (so you make your money in the long run).
Oh hell... this is a big old can of worms. They invent an anarchic network topology (the internet) that is self sustaining and deliberately uncontrollable - then they try to control it.
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As much fun as it is to lambast Microsoft for this kind of thing, the types of exploit that have been "exposed" recently are very difficult to predict in advance (i.e. use of software features in unexpected ways). It's a little like blaming Boeing for letting their aircraft be flown towards tall buildings...
Speaking as a professional software developer, I have a manager for exactly this reason - if we f*ck up (for whatever reason, but usually because deadlines mean testing doesn't happen), the project manager gets the blame.
In a perfect world software developers unit test their code, and then testers run through a test plan that was written before development began. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world - which is why ideas like "extreme programming" came about.
I normally don't take that much notice of the various security announcements, because most people cause their own trouble on the internet through their mode of behaviour. These news reports really are starting to make me wonder what other holes there are in Microsoft products.
What can I say... I was bored at work one afternoon, and had a copy of paintshop at my disposal :)
It's funny that this came up - last week I made a cartoon for my blog...
Ballmer Exposed as Evil Robot
http://www.wellybog.com/index.php?entryid=107
Enjoy :)
You could use the same kind of argument to give credit for lots of things. There must be some kind of positive link between obesity, depression, cancer, salt, UFOs, and porn on the net, but I'm not quite sure without loads more research - particularly on the latter.
Isn't it funny how all the western countries look down their noses at China and it's state control of information.
And here we all are using various open source software applications...
(I'm not going to join the dots here between communist ideologies and open source, but it does amuse me how jingoistic and easily manipulated western audiences seem to be these days).
(this is the point where I jump off the fence and start running - pulling splinters out as I do so)
I wonder if the Google filters remove "All The Base Are Belong To Us" ?
This story just served to remind me how pointless it is to try and enforce law on the internet.
Perhaps the various copyright enforcement agencies would do better if they changed themselves into education agencies.
It doesn't take a genius to understand that piracy kills the product being pirated. Most people like the own the "genuine" article too though (so you make your money in the long run).
Oh hell... this is a big old can of worms. They invent an anarchic network topology (the internet) that is self sustaining and deliberately uncontrollable - then they try to control it.
How stupid is that.
Let me get this right - if you play two conversations from the same person, people listening in will not be able to make head or tail of it?
All you would need to do is see the lips of the person talking and your brain would do the rest for you...