IP: Microsoft & disclosures

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: jeremy bornstein <uke () jeremy org>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:53:22 -0700
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Microsoft & disclosures

http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp

A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that
sharing information with competitors could damage national security and
even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged
that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed.
...
"It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also
implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks,"
Allchin testified. "Computers, including many running Windows operating
systems, are used throughout the United States Department of Defense and
by the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."

Unlike the states' proposed remedy, the federal settlement proposal that
Microsoft and the Department of Justice agreed to in November contains a
carve-out that permits Microsoft to withhold API and protocol
disclosures if such disclosures would compromise security.


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