Re: Microsoft declares security is NOT its top priority

From: HillBillyBuddhist (hillbillybuddhist_at_shoescolumbus.rr.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:35:06 -0400

"perfb" <perfb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| As M$ is refusing to allow all installations of its defective
| OS to be patched, it is apparent that internet security
| is NOT the top priority at M$. Any M$ argument to the contrary
| is thoroughly refuted by this simple fact.
|
| to wit:
|
| -----------------------------------------------
|
| Tuesday, 01 June 2004
|
| Microsoft's actions speak louder than words
| by Bruce Schneier, Network World
| Comment: is security Microsoft's top priority?
|
| The security of your computer and network depends on two things: what
| you do to secure your computer and network, and what everyone else
| does to secure their computers and networks. It's not enough for you
| to maintain a secure network. If other people don't maintain their
| security, we're all more vulnerable to attack.
| When many unsecure computers are connected to the Internet, worms
| spread faster and more extensively, distributed denial-of-service
| attacks are easier to launch, and spammers have more platforms from
| which to send e-mail. The more unsecure the average computer on the
| Internet is, the more unsecure your computer is.
|

| Then Microsoft said the initial comments were wrong; SP2 would not run
| on pirated copies of XP. Only legal copies of the software could be
| secured. This is the wrong decision, for all the same reasons that the
| initial decision was the correct one.

If I were Microsoft I wouldn't foot the bill to maintain stolen copies of my
software either.

While I agree that doing so would be to the advantage of the "greater good"
Microsoft is not a philanthropic organization it's a for profit corporation
and the bandwidth etc... used to maintain pirated copies is an expense.

If I steal your car will you keep up the insurance for me in the event I
injure a third party in order to protect them? It would be better for others
if you did. 

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