Re: Bill Gates blames the victim

[Alexandre Dulaunoy <alexandre.dulaunoy () ael be>]

On 3 Sep 2003, Petr Swedock wrote:

> "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> writes (quotes):
>
>    ;; 
>    ;;    Q. "The buffer overrun flaw that made the Blaster worm 
>    ;;    possible was specifically targeted in your code reviews 
>    ;;    last year. Do you understand why the flaw that led to 
>    ;;    Blaster escaped your detection?"
>    ;; 
>    ;;    A. "Understand there have actually been fixes for all of 
>    ;;    these things before the attack took place. The challenge 
>    ;;    is that we've got to get the fixes to be automatically 
>    ;;    applied without our customers having to make a special effort."
>
> "Don't trust our software. But do trust our patching/update process..."

Don't trust software but trust our software patches... 

We  can continue the  sentence by  adding that  the special  effort is
needed because new bugs are generated by these patches. 

Arf. 

adulau
 
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