Microsoft Says Vista Most Secure OS Ever 440
darryl24 writes "Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia opened up TechEd 2006 in Boston Sunday evening by proclaiming that Windows Vista was the most secure operating system in the industry. But a bold statement can only go so far, and much of this week's conference has been spent reinforcing that point. Microsoft also acknowledges that nothing is infallible when it comes to computer security. In turn, the company has employed black hat hackers for what is called a penetration, or pen, test team."
This doesn't work. (Score:2, Informative)
If you want security, use Windows 95... A crashed computer is incredibly secure - far more secure than Vista.
Pass the linctus (Score:3, Informative)
Sorry about that. Did someone say Microsoft thinks they've got "t3h m0st s3cur3 05 ev4r lollll!!!!1111" or something?!
Black hat?? Come on guys. (Score:5, Informative)
By definition, if you employ hackers to test an operating system, they are NOT "black hat" hackers - they are, at best, "grey hat" hackers.
Definition from Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:
Usually a Black hat is a person who maintains knowledge of the vulnerabilities and exploits they find as secret for private advantage, not revealing them either to the general public or the manufacturer for correction.
Just FYI (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Microsoft + Stupid Claims = ... (Score:5, Informative)
They haven't told us about any exploits they've found, but some crackers hold their exploit until the day of release and use it on retail, instead of beta. This allows them a '0-day release' that would be impossible otherwise for something with this much 'security'.
Re:MS Airforce Attacks OpenBSD Leader, Servers (Score:1, Informative)
Exactly... (Score:3, Informative)
Exactly... just like this one. [wikipedia.org]
Re:Well, I suppose in the end, it *is* secure... (Score:3, Informative)
Vista already had malware written for it (Score:1, Informative)
Really?
http://news.com.com/First+potential+virus+risk+fo
But then, Microsoft did the same claim about their Windows XP, touting it to be the most secure version of Windows, and even rolling such funny ads as this one, promoting XP:
http://www.dolphinwave.org/Media/Local/msbanner_1
And then there was MS Blast, probably the most devastating blast against Windows at those times...
Now they claim it to be not just the most secure Windows, but the most secure OS! Imagine the magniture of the next upcoming hit it will take...
Re:BOOT CD's (Score:1, Informative)
Of course you would not need a hard drive for that, you can play a lot of games off a live CD, too:
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/6136 [tuxmachines.org]
I used it, tried demos of Doom-3, Quake-4, UT2004, America's Army, Cube... Runs great. No HD - just boot a DVD and play. Oh, and you also have a full-blown working desktop with OpenOffice at your fingertips. All from a bootable DVD.