Re: Any software security news from the RSA conference?

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At 2:08 PM -0500 2/26/04, Bill Cheswick wrote:
> Bill Gates gave a keynote on their current approach to security, and
> the contents of SP2, due out 1H 2004.  From what I heard, Bill
> "gets it."  He addressed about 4 of my top 6 complaints and remediations.
> Quite a change from the rhetoric of five years ago.
> But it is an Augean stable, and they have a long way to go.

You must be thinking of a different Bill Gates than the one familiar
to me.  I am thinking of the one who announced a few years ago that
Microsoft would stop other activities for a month and fix their security.