[ale] Experts: Reliance On Microsoft A Danger To National Sec urity

[Kilroy, Chris]

Do you expect MS spokesmen to stand up and say "well if i needed a secure box, i'd definitely go w/ BSD..."?

=p


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->On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:20:45PM -0400, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
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->>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
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->Oh, the irony.
->
->The article does make some good points.  I am frankly astounded that a
->Microsoft spokesman would actually utter the phrase "We 
->always consider
->security to be our absolute top priority" in public.
->
->Maybe I'm just getting cynical, but I predict that the report will get
->lots of air time on geek sites like slashdot and newsforge, but will
->have absolutely zero effect on aynone who actually makes any of these
->decisions.
->
->Jason
->
->P.S.
->Please don't start a new thread by replying to a message and changing
->the subject.  This messes up the threading for those of us that use
->threaded mail readers.  For an example, look at this thread in the
->archives: 
->http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2003-08/threads.html#01942
->The thread I'm referring to has the subject "Resize /dev/md0", but
->notice that after two responses the subject becomes "web 
->server".  That
->message, and its replies, are still a part of the original 
->thread, even
->though they clearly have nothing to do with it.
->-- 
->Jason Day                                       jasonday at
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->att dot net
-> 
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