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Re: Microsoft and Security
From: "Justin Wheeler" <jwheeler () datademons com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:41:40 -0400
On Friday 25 June 2004 20:53, http-equiv () excite com wrote:
What's happening here. Where is the Microsoft representative explaining all of this to the shareholders and "customers" they so dearly wish to protect. This is unacceptable. Someone must be held accountable.Although I do agree on most of your words, I hardly find this list appropriate for such rants. You're talking to people who already know this, and do not forget that Microsoft doesn't play security game like Open Source people do. It is two different worlds, really. While OS people might just sit down, write a patch and publish it, MS people would have to write patch, submit it to QA, see that it doesn't break something else, see that it doesn't make the end-user experience less comfortable, and only then release it to the public (takes time, doesn't it?).
*snip* Perhaps that'd be a better argument, if there weren't countless patches from MS in the past that broke other things.. (http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/OF6CB1254D.22B27464-ON85256E89.004FB 436-85256E89.0050E58D () seba com/2004-06-25/2004-07-01/0 for example). And I'd also be more likely to believe that if there weren't MS patches out there that fix one particular bug, but completely ignore other ones that are nearly IDENTICAL to it. Justin
Current thread:
- Microsoft and Security http-equiv () excite com (Jun 25)
- Re: Microsoft and Security Radoslav Dejanović (Jun 26)
- Re: Microsoft and Security Justin Wheeler (Jun 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Microsoft and Security Drew Copley (Jun 25)
- Re: Microsoft and Security Radoslav Dejanović (Jun 26)