Comment: Of course (Score 1) 1
That's like getting keys to your house copied by the burglers in prison. Of course they will make you encryption - that way they know how to break it...
How fast is your turnaround time?
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petrus.burdigala
petrus.burdigala writes "I work for a mid-sized commercial software company (~20 Mloc) and we are frequently challenged by our supervisors to get fixes around the clock. Overall, we manage to get a "bullet-proof" patch in about 4-5 weeks (from coding->QA->Build/Packaging->shipment), which I consider not so bad. But the other day, we got an urgent request from our support team to come up with a decent fix in 48 hours. I think they're a tiny bit unrealistic. So I wanted to get feedback from my peers : are we doing that bad? It takes months for other software vendors to issue zero-day exploit fixes, are our customer being unreasonable?"
Microsoft's new validation policy
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fishyfool
fishyfool writes "Microsoft has started a new policy of authenticating the Windows operating system. Previously when a user has installed Windows they had to activate the OS with Microsoft online or by phone. One could understand why Microsoft put the activation process into place, with all the pirating that was taking place with early verisons of Windows.
Now Microsoft has taken authentication of the Microsoft Validation to a whole new level. Starting now, they will be checking your operating system every month.
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