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Re: Your Opinion
From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe () rowe-clan net>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:29:01 -0500
Mark Litchfield wrote:
I have heard the comment "It's a huge conflict of interest" for one company to provide both an operating platform and a security platform" made by John Thompson (CEO Symantec) many times from many different people.
The only conflict that occurs to me is the commercial pressure of an OS vendor to retain their reputation of security, by providing less disclosure than a security coordination group or security utility company might present. When RoI reigns supreme, the pressure to downplay security issues, correct them silently, etc is much greater than the desire to be candid with the end-user administrator community.
Current thread:
- Your Opinion Mark Litchfield (Mar 16)
- Re: Your Opinion bugtraq (Mar 16)
- Re: Your Opinion Jonathan Glass (GM) (Mar 16)
- RE: Your Opinion Mario Contestabile (Mar 16)
- Re: Your Opinion Crispin Cowan (Mar 16)
- Re: Your Opinion William A. Rowe, Jr. (Mar 16)
- RE: Your Opinion Scott Blake (Mar 16)
- Re: Your Opinion The Fungi (Mar 17)
- Re: Your Opinion Casper . Dik (Mar 17)
- RE: Your Opinion Jim Harrison (Mar 20)
- RE: Your Opinion Jim Harrison (Mar 17)
- RE: Your Opinion Alex Eckelberry (Mar 19)
- Re: Your Opinion Andrew Kramer (Mar 20)
- Re: Your Opinion Forrest J. Cavalier III (Mar 19)
- Re: Your Opinion Paul Stepowski (Mar 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Your Opinion Neil Dickey (Mar 16)
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