[CLUE-Talk] Warning: set rant mode = true... was: Ah, yes: the much-vaunted Microsoft security

[Jeffery Cann]

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<rant>
Is anyone actually surprized at the folly of Redmond trying to produce a 
'secure' environment?  When even Gartner Group (a microsoft lackey) 
recommends that (after 5 years of security problems) that companies should 
not use IIS, things are getting interesting.

I heard a great editorial on NPR on Friday on the topic of M$ passport.  The 
comments were lucid and spoke directly to the scary temptation of M$ to use 
your personal (passport) data to make money (selling it to mass-marketers).  
Does anyone think that M$ passport database will not be hacked repeatedly?  
BTW - If you use an MSN account, you are _already_ in the passport database.  
Want to trust M$ to keep your credit card number and information safe just so 
you can 'check out' of commerce web sites faster?  I do not.  I will boycott 
all sites that implement .net and passport authentication for commerce.  I 
encourage you to do the same.

Microsoft has shown an utter lack of understanding of even basic security 
principles.  Sure, their 'chief security officer' will warn that XP 'is not 
ready' (from a security standpoint).  These warnings do not stop the sales / 
marketing phenomenon of Redmond to even take pause to consider the 
ramifications.  They care about money, making a lot of it - at the expense of 
all humans worldwide.

I am waiting for the first year of XP to exist in general release to watch in 
hope that the market will finally reject the M$ monopoly in favor of open 
systems.  

I fear for Microsoft, as the Emperor's clothes are not just fraying, but 
tearing.  I hope they soon will be off!
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Later,
Jeff

On Sunday 28 October 2001 05:45, you wrote:
> From an article entitled : Microsoft XP Anti-Theft Features Cracked
> within Hours of Product Launch
>
> The anti-theft features incorporated in WindowsXP that Microsoft
> claimed would put an end to software theft were broken within hours of
> the product being launched on 25 October 2001.
>
> Already Crackers have developed illegal installation files that bypass
> the registration process for Microsoft's WindowsXP. These files can
> now be downloaded from Web sites in the Far East and cracked copies of
> WindowsXP, with the protection mechanism stripped out, can be
> downloaded from Warez sites across the Internet.
>
> A little more information, some of it sounding like sour grapes, is in
> the article:
>
> (http://sourcewire.com/General/Frames.php?page=Releases/ShowRelease.php?id=
>13489)
>
> I just can't stop laughing: Can't Microsoft do ANYTHING right with
> security?
>
> BOF
>
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