Microsoft and the Open Source community agree more must be done to make
reporting cyber-crime easier
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| The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, currently
| investigating personal Internet security, were told this week
| that the public face real difficulties in reporting internet
| based crime.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/9122
Some quotes from the full transcript:
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| [MS's] Mr Lambert: We have always worked with other companies, including
| competitors, to try to make our systems as inter-operable as possible...
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| ...Laurie: As an example of the security of an open source product,
| there is a web server many people will not have heard of called Apache.
| Quite often when I am speaking at a high level conference I actually
| ask the question of the room, "Who here has heard of Apache?" and
| maybe ten per cent of the people in the room will know. I will then
| ask, "Who has heard of Microsoft?" - big laugh, of course everyone
| knows Microsoft, and then it surprises them to learn that Apache
| SSL, which is the secure web server version of it, has 70 per cent
| of the world market in secure servers. In its ten-year history
| there have only been three security alerts and two of those
| were because of external libraries that were being used, so
| there has only ever in its ten year history been one issue
| specific to Apache SSL itself.
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http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/lduncorr/s&tii170107.pdf
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