Journal ellem's Journal: Bill Gates Begs To Be Cracked On Vista 6
In a recent interview here Bill Gates had this to say about security:
Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
Listen closely! Can you hear the soft whirring of hard drives loading nessus in Norway and China
Given the exploit that already came out (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
1) Is there any operating system that *isn't* vulnerable to such an attack?
2) If Microsoft had addressed that threat in the only way I can think of -- modifying all audio output so that it could be detected by the speech recogntion -- what do you think the Slashbot response to that would have been?
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Gee, I'd say any operating system that doesn't have a speech interface isn't vunerable.
2) If Microsoft had addressed that threat in the only way I can think of -- modifying all audio output so that it could be detected by the speech recogntion -- what do you think the Slashbot response to that would have been?
I don't know about the slashbot response, but the script kiddie response has already been covered by a Dilbert cartoon-
Heh (Score:2)
Deja vu all over again (Score:2)
Didn't work out so well for the last public figure to say that. I wonder if Bill will do better?
Ob. answer ... (Score:2)
"I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
Because only once a month would be a HUGE reduction - sort of like "I dare you to eat only ONE salted peanut ..."