On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 12:36, Andrew Plato wrote:
> I know it sounds like it, but I am not defending Microsoft. I'm the
> first to admit that Microsoft is a big part of the security problems out
> there. But security is a bigger issue than just Microsoft. Microsoft
> might be a 900 lb gorilla, but that doesn't mean there isn't a plenty of
> 800lb and 725lb gorillas out there that are equally as bug-riddled as
> Microsoft.
Yes, but Microsoft's traditional response to any security issue has been
to treat it as a PR problem as opposed to a technical problem.
Microsoft has claimed to have changed their ways. Events like this make
me doubt that a great deal.
--
alan at clueserver.org - alan at ctrl-alt-del.com
"...new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great
engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of
free government, have usually wreaked their alternate
malignity on each other...."
- James Madison in The Federalist No. 43,
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