What's a Vista zero-day exploit worth? Try $50K

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State the obvious! What is the real problem?

MS just has to offer more money for pirates to hack OS X and Linux! $1,000,000 a day on offer, just rip into them. Bonuses for each day that it is not patched! What's $365M a year to MS?

I think in all the MS slagging, the real culprits are ignored: malicious hackers. They are the CAUSE of the problem. Mistakes
in architecture and programming is not what is CREATING the problem. They may just make it easier for the PROBLEM perpetrators to be effective. Rather like guns being available in general society: they make it easier for murderers and robbers, but they are not the CAUSE of robberies and murder. Until the CAUSES are addressed, almost all efforts will be playing catchup.

These days of laying the blame at the feet of those most able to pay has distracted effort from trying to find out why some
people want to destroy and focussed it on trying to reduce their effect. That is counter-productive and just perpetuates the expensive find-a-fault/litigation cycle. It has resulted in a whole security industry that essentially has no interest in
ultimate CAUSES, because that would shoot themselves in the head.

Posted by: Patanjali   Posted on: 12/16/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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