By Simon Moores
Published: Wednesday 12 October 2005
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Anonymous
Location
USA
Occupation
Engineer
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Stating Microsoft cannot improve the security of the operating system is akin to stating the automobile manufacturers cannot design and build safer vehicles because it will adversely impact the auto repair and medical professions. The issue is not the improved security; it is how the improvement is obtained. Eliminating buffer overflow vulnerabilities is fine. Allowing only their proprietary solution at extra cost for addressing the buffer overflow defect in the product is not.
The logic is flawed, very badly !
There is noth...
Simon
Third-party security businesses exists largely to ...
Richard
Stating Microsoft cannot improve the security of t...
Anonymous
The issue is not whether MS should or shouldn't ha...
Anonymous
Anti-virus is good for security but not needed. It...
MattiasW
It would seem your analogy is wrong in the sense t...
Marcus D. Hanwell
Simon, sorry but you are wrong. Very wrong.
Car m...
Anonymous
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