IP: Microsoft Can't Spin This Worm

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:27:28 -0600
> To: farber () linc cis upenn edu
> From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>
> Subject: For IP: Microsoft Can't Spin This Worm
>
> By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, >By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Sm@rt Partner
>
> Common lies: This won't hurt a bit. I'll respect you in the morning. The 
> Microsoft security break-in was "not very" damaging.
>
> Come on, Ballmer! That's beyond spin; that ranks right down there with 
> Clinton's "I never had sex with that woman." Cracking Microsoft's internal 
> network is the biggest computer break-in ever.
>
> OK, let's say you were born yesterday and you buy Microsoft President and 
> CEO Steve Ballmer's story that no secrets were laid bare and no real harm 
> was done. So what?
>
> Microsoft wants you to entrust everything on your network to its operating 
> systems, their applications -- and oh yes, its security measures. After 
> all, the ultimate goal of .Net is to replace the existing Internet's 
> infrastructure programs with Microsoft's own software. And now we find 
> that this giant of software companies, the self-proclaimed and de facto 
> leader of desktop software, is vulnerable to a garden-variety worm?
>
> Oh yeah, this really makes me want to put all my business eggs into a 
> Microsoft basket....
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2646049,00.html