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The Myth of Code Security at MS

"Really, Microsoft needs to stop adding features until they get this under control. But, they are planning on a new operating system with major portions re-written and major new features. You first need to understand the limits of human beings to generate such large amounts of code without thousands of security holes."

I understand the limits, but-

I know people that were honest-to-God Microserfs that wrote some of those thousands of lines of code and they told me a little story about how some of the holes got there.

Seems Mr. Gates has had a habit of examining the code as it sits in the server (can't take home anything to work on at Redmond) and playing with it if he's really bored. So in many cases, he left a lot of rogue code sitting in the middle of what might have been perfectly secure material. And Gates knew what he did and when, so if some poor soul deleted the cr*p, s/he was escorted off the campus post-haste.

Since Billy-Boy probably hasn't learned any new programming languages since he worked for Digital Research, I don't think any code he writes would improve the product. I would hazard a guess that some of those lines of have been replicated into the new versions of Windows over the years (to save coding time) and they could be the source of many of the holes.

Just a theory I have (based on what I've heard), you understand...

Posted by: AbsolutelyNot   Posted on: 11/05/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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