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Re: [News] No Second Chances for Windows Security As Homeland Security Cracks Whip

__/ [ 7 ] on Friday 11 August 2006 17:26 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Perspective:  Microsoft security--no more second chances?
>> 
>> ,----[ Excerpt ]
>> | CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the software maker is running out
>> | of excuses for a history of poor security.
>> `----
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | As if Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff didn't have enough on
>> | his plate.
>> | 
>> | Not only has he had to deal with Katrina and Osama. Now he's also got to
>> | whip Steve Ballmer and the crew at Microsoft into shape. If past is
>> | prologue, that last task may be the most daunting of all.
> 
> 
> The easiest way for the Department of Homoland Security to whip micoshaft
> into place is to recommend Ubuntu.

Homeland security to recommend communism? (sarcasm) The mind boggles. To make
it possible to recommends some 'fascist' South African O/S, one would have
to rename it Democracy O/S... kind of like Democracy TV...

There is also a clash of interests here, which does not just involve finance
(tax and money from the rest of the world). There is nothing that the US
undercovers would love more than an O/S with back doors (undercovers
themselves use *nix, of course). Also, the wizard is right there in Redmond,
shall they need access or some source code. Information is power. Code is
power. US Government *LOVES* power. Linux gives power to /owner/.

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