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Re: Microsoft plans tighter security measures in Windows XP SP2


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 13:27:36 -0500

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:08:05 +0200, Georgi Guninski said:

The probable cost of buying Guninsky does not exist.
m$ are lusers, and I am not a wh0re.

I know.  My point was that they would have been stupid if they had not
at least *considered* the idea.  Let's say the goal is to be able to claim that
they've done a good job, and known vulnerabilities found per month is down
80%.  Then we have:

1) Actually fix the software. Total rewrite, $200M.
2) Bribe all the major reporters of bugs. $20M.

Which of these sounds like a better deal for Microsoft? ;)


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