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Re: EBAY and AMAZON
From: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne () staff msen com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:33:29 -0400
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:44:44AM +0000, Jamie Bowden wrote:
While MS may be a favorite whipping boy, let's not pretend that if the dominant OS were Apple or some flavor of *nix, things would be any better.
There is an inherent advantage for anything based upon *BSD. It was developed in an evironment where in order to continue to operate it was required to defend itself against many users who wished to exploit the O/S. Windows, being designed for a single-user environment, made a number of design decisions which directly conflict with security. Having spoken to MS security about this, there is no interest on their part in disturbing the "user experience" in exchange for drastic security improvements. Rather, they continue to gradually evolve their existing model to increase security which, in fact, has been improved, however slowly. It is important to understand that there is nothing inherent in the Windows experience which prohibits security. Rather, it is a deliberate design choice on the part of MS.
Current thread:
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON, (continued)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON goemon (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Kain, Rebecca (.) (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Blake Pfankuch (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Joel Esler (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Keith Medcalf (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Robert Hajime Lanning (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Rich Kulawiec (Jun 12)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Blake Pfankuch (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Hal Murray (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Keith Medcalf (Jun 11)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Jamie Bowden (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Michael R. Wayne (Jun 12)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Jamie Bowden (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Gary Buhrmaster (Jun 12)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Barry Shein (Jun 13)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Dave Hart (Jun 13)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Barry Shein (Jun 13)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Keith Medcalf (Jun 13)
- RE: EBAY and AMAZON Keith Medcalf (Jun 11)
- Re: EBAY and AMAZON Rich Kulawiec (Jun 13)
- vulnerability and popularity (was: EBAY and AMAZON) Andrew Sullivan (Jun 13)
- Re: vulnerability and popularity (was: EBAY and AMAZON) Aled Morris (Jun 13)
- Re: vulnerability and popularity (was: EBAY and AMAZON) Owen DeLong (Jun 13)