Did you hear that whooshing sound when you replied?

Imagine that; the government denying that it's doing something illegal. Maybe he was narrating a comic strip or something and they only thought it was a press release.

That doesn't make any fucking sense! If you're going to save the Constitution, that includes the Bill of Rights. If you destroy the BoR then you have essentially destroyed the Constitution AND what it stood for!

Imagine that; Microsoft needs to reboot itself to become functional again.

First: Please proof your comments, especially when trying to prove someone wrong.

Second: How is he responsible for the actions of the website developers? They could have been using the exploit for a long time. The article just says that a site is using that bug, not that they got the idea from his publishing or even that they just started using the exploit within a week. You have a guy that has published a bug, then you have a site that is said to be exploiting the bug; nothing linking the two.

Ok, good point on the billy-club. If I read correctly, didn't he give MS 4 weeks to patch it before publishing an exploit for the bug? MS is a commercial company that provides a product and has an obligation to ensure its security. The Linux kernel, however, comes with no such guarantees; maybe if you bought a commercial distro but even then it depends on the EULA. You can always speculate better/different ways of doing something after it's done. I'm not going to bash Ormandy for publicizing the bug anymore than I would bash somebody for publicizing a bug in the Linux kernel. Come to think of it, aren't all the bugs for linux (and other opensource projects) public on a bug site?

He's no more aiding and abetting a hacker than a billy-club company is aiding a cop that beats you senseless.

I can just imagine some repair guys walking up to this guys garage and then circling a fridge holding random equipment and then trying their damndest to keep a straight face while telling the guy he had to turn off his fridge or be fined.

No, it'll be click "Start" > click "Settings" > click "Shutdown". They've added a Start button, not the Start menu.

Because it's new! New == Better

Hasn't Microsoft taught you anything?

LOL j/k

But seriously though. I'm happy to see judges starting to take a stand and putting the corps in their place. We need more judges like this and the judge that tried putting Prenda in its place!

FIRST!

Somebody needs to wake up and take a look around

what sites would those be?

You do know that the old service packs were downloadable as an executable and