Comment Start at home, M$ (Score 2, Interesting) 473
Granted that since their operating systems are popular they are bound to attract attention of of virus writers,etc., but they are as much to blame.
Linux and other *nix have security holes, but they aren't near what the M$ holes are.
Case in point, the DDOS attacks come from security compromised Windows machines. And take your pick of the recent viruses that have crippled anyone running IIS and wasted everyone else's bandwidth. With every upgrade thay make, why couldn't they make it more secure? They either chose not to or don't know they need to. Neither is acceptable. (or as Thomas stated" Expecting software to be written flawlessly.....but unrealistic." Hey Thomas, how about reasonably instead of flawlessly? Is that too much to ask?)
Consider that since we all share the net, glaring flaws in operating systems can affect us all, regardless if we run it or not. (I am referring to DDOS and viruses like Code Red)
And it looks like it is about to get worse with XP. Some may recall GRC.com's adventure with a script kiddie using security compromised Windows machines to launch DOS attacks. To see what I mean look at: http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm
So if Microsoft wants to jump on the terrorism bandwagon, and have the legal system clean up a mess they made, they should start at home and shore up their products and protect them from script kiddies that need comparatively remedial skills to launch attacks and write trojans and viruses. I would applaud them making their own software secure before they launch yet another OS.
I am not bashing M$ but, it seems that they are partly to blame in the problem they want our legal system to fix. I do think there should be some legal accountability, but that's another post.
Linux and other *nix have security holes, but they aren't near what the M$ holes are.
Case in point, the DDOS attacks come from security compromised Windows machines. And take your pick of the recent viruses that have crippled anyone running IIS and wasted everyone else's bandwidth. With every upgrade thay make, why couldn't they make it more secure? They either chose not to or don't know they need to. Neither is acceptable. (or as Thomas stated" Expecting software to be written flawlessly.....but unrealistic." Hey Thomas, how about reasonably instead of flawlessly? Is that too much to ask?)
Consider that since we all share the net, glaring flaws in operating systems can affect us all, regardless if we run it or not. (I am referring to DDOS and viruses like Code Red)
And it looks like it is about to get worse with XP. Some may recall GRC.com's adventure with a script kiddie using security compromised Windows machines to launch DOS attacks. To see what I mean look at: http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm
So if Microsoft wants to jump on the terrorism bandwagon, and have the legal system clean up a mess they made, they should start at home and shore up their products and protect them from script kiddies that need comparatively remedial skills to launch attacks and write trojans and viruses. I would applaud them making their own software secure before they launch yet another OS.
I am not bashing M$ but, it seems that they are partly to blame in the problem they want our legal system to fix. I do think there should be some legal accountability, but that's another post.
