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Laughable PR flannel

Dear Microsoft

Your UK web site was defaced again yesterday,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/25/ms_uk_defaced/

I understand that, in contrast to the high profile propaganda (such as this paid piece), you have no comment to make about this? Especially regarding which of the many Windows specific exploits was used to so easily hack into a live Microsoft website running IIS, and thereby make a laughing stock of your ridiculous "Trustworthy Computing" claims.

From http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5692

10th Feb 2003

The history of the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing initiative so far is bracketed by self-propogating worms that each were built on previously patched Microsoft vulnerabilities and each caused more than $1 billion in damages.
Mayhem caused by the July 2001 Code Red worm provided incentive for Microsoft to get serious about an internal initiative to regain the industry's trust. Chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates moved that Trustworthy Computing initiative to the front burner with his famous Jan. 15, 2002, e-mail to Microsoft employees and subcontractors. "Trustworthy Computing is the highest priority for all the work we are doing," Gates wrote in his Trustworthy Computing e-mail.

One year and $200 million into the initiative, just as Microsoft was patting itself on the back for its Trustworthy Computing-related efforts, another worm hit another Microsoft product. SQL Slammer attacked Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and MSDE 2000 late last month, clogging networks with messages and causing thousands of systems to fail".

Here we are another year on and the Microsoft bullshine just keeps on coming ... as do the never ending Microsoft specific virus, worms and trojans.

As long as every user absolves Microsoft of all responsibility for their crudware when they accept the EULA, this "trustworthy computing" hot air is all that will come out of Redmond.

Just make sure your subscription is up to date though!

Posted by: jellyclock   Posted on: 05/26/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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