__/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 01 March 2007 05:25 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Symantec takes another crack at Vista security
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>> | According to the papers, 3% of existing backdoors, 4% of current
>> | keyloggers, 2% of Trojans and 2% of spyware can successfully execute
>> | and survive a restart on Vista without being modified. It's not
>> | clear how well this compares to non-malicious software designed
>> | for XP.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=F6CFA321-C9FD-47EE-B548-CA8C5A128ED7
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> "Wow". Finally some software that actually runs on Vista.
2% of 200,000+ viruses is about 4,000. That's far more than Microsoft's
compatibility lists, which contains the names of roughly 800 programs.
Backward compatibility discourages sales of new software. Consistent file
formats obviate the need to upgrade. So whose software are you going to
trust?
Publish And Perish
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| Alexander Rose, the executive director of the futurist Long Now
| Foundation, worries about the impermanence of digital information.
| "If you save that computer for 100 years, will the electrical plugs
| look the same?" he asks. "The Mac or the PC--will they be around?
| If they are, what about the software? " So far there's no business
| case for digital preservation--in fact, for software makers like
| Microsoft, planned obsolescence is the plan.
|
| "The reality is that it's in companies' interest that software should
| become obsolete and that you should have to buy every upgrade,"
| Rose says. We could be on the cusp of a turning point, though, in the
| way businesses and their customers think about digital preservation.
| "Things will start to change when people start losing all of their personal
| photos," Rose said.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/books-information-preservation-tech-media_cx_ee_books06_1201acid.html?partner=yahootix
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