Microsoft Port 25 interviews Miguel de Icaza

Ben Galliart writes "Microsoft's Port 25 blog, the voice of MS Linux Labs and a spin-off from the MS Channel 9 blog, has an interview with Miguel de Icaza where they discuss the Gnome and Mono projects. It is a nice change of pace to see Microsoft go from attacking Novell and Linux to interviewing a Novell employee about a Linux desktop system. Port 25 has come under some fire since they can not always be trusted. Port 25 has on occasion put out FUD such as claiming Microsoft is doing more to improve security than any other vendor and a security guide attacking Red Hat for not providing security updates for Red Hat v9 despite that Red Hat ended support back in 2004. They have also released a password synchronization daemon for Red Hat, AIX, HPUX and Solaris that must run as root and makes several calls to strcpy() (which violates Microsoft's guidelines for doing secure coding)."

revelaed

[Anonymous Coward]

miguel is the liebermann of open source

Server Error in '/' Application.

[Anonymous Coward]

Server Error in '/' Application.

They forgot to put a '.' after the '/' !

Speaking of FUD...

[Future Man 3000]

Port 25 has on occasion put out FUD such as claiming Microsoft is doing more to improve security than any other vendor

Which vendors are doing more to improve their security?

Given what they had to start with, I think it's very difficult to claim anybody's done what they've accomplished between 95 and XP SP2. You tell me one other vendor that's gone so far as using tools like authentication and WGA to combat the worst offenders of security -- the users themselves? Linux users, Mac users, even the *BSD user is free to boot their operating systems without the slightest arbitrary challenge to their right to do so and from there go on to face any number of potential security issues; but with Windows, you need only upgrade your CD drive emulator a handful of times or use Windows Update as directed to find yourself relieved of the concerns users of lesser operating systems face.

They had the most potential with regards to security and they've finally met it, and I say kudos.

Why would you trust Port 25?

[jd]

At the very least, they should be using Port 465 [rickk.com] (SMTP over SSL/TLS). It's no wonder they feel insecure, using plain-test. Honestly!

Anyone using Red Hat 9?

[also-rr]

Even my old university has now upgraded their labs to FC5, and they are so cheap that they actually asked if there was a discount on a GPL upgrade license.

not FUD

[McGiraf]

"claiming Microsoft is doing more to improve security than any other vendor"

That is not FUD, they started so far behind everybody else that they have to do more than anybody else just to keep Windows running

MS Linux Labs?

[cunina]

Isn't that like "Jews for Jesus," "Rock Against Drugs," or "McDonald's New Healthy Menu?"

Re:strcpy ok sometimes

[Anonymous Coward]

You are correct in saying that "helllo" is six characters. "alkjdg" is also six characters. Neither has any relation to the original post.