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Re: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?"
From: David Maxwell <david () vex net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:11:14 -0400
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
The MS Security Initiative is an utter sham.
Good comments about continued web-cluelessness omitted.
At the outset of the Security Initiative the skeptics largely said "it's a marketing ploy", but its defenders said "it will take time for the real results to be seen". As the weeks turned into months and now years and little has been seen to have improved (and some very public things to have gone backwards), it seems increasingly that the skeptics may have been right...
For years, Microsoft has had a policy of announcing products that don't exist yet, to cause customers to stop buying a competitor's product. That's Vapourware. Is it really any shock that they would want to prevent customers from using more robust OSs and tools, by offering Vapoursecurity? -- David Maxwell, david () vex net|david () maxwell net --> Any sufficiently advanced Common Sense will seem like magic... - me _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?" Nick FitzGerald (Jun 12)
- Re: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?" David Maxwell (Jun 12)
- Re: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?" Dave Horsfall (Jun 12)
- Re: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?" Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 13)
- Re: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?" Dave Horsfall (Jun 12)
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- RE: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?" Morning Wood (Jun 12)
- Re: MS web designers -- "What Security Initiative?" David Maxwell (Jun 12)