__/ [ Guy Fawkes ] on Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:16 \__
> http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/03/bots_story.html
>
> The thing that ires me is that Microsoft and its Windoze operating system
> isn't blamed or even mentioned at all! Did I hear someone say 'editorial
> censorship?'
>
> What's the net worth of technology articles on MSNBC? Zero, zilch...
Another bunch of scared journalists:
Bots Found Inside Many Big Companies
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| Support Intelligence, a network security company in San Francisco, is
| running "30 Days of Bots," a project that posts the names of big
| companies whose networks have been infected with spam-spewing bots.
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http://blog.baselinemag.com/security/content001/cybercrime/bots_found_inside_many_big_companies.html
Nothing about Microsoft of Windows. The Security Guru Bruce S. said he
absolutely agrees with this:
Abandoning the Vista Ship
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| As Dan Geer has been saying for years, Microsoft has a bit of a
| problem. Either it stonewalls and pretends there is no security
| problem, which is what Vista does, by taking over your computer
| to force patches (and DRM) down its throat. Or you actually
| change the basic design and produce a secure operating system,
| which risks people wondering why they're sticking with Windows
| and Microsoft, then? It turns out the former course may also
| result in the latter result:
|
| If you fit Microsoft's somewhat convoluted definition of poor, it still
| wants to lock you in, you might get rich enough to afford the
| full-priced stuff someday. It is at a dangerous crossroads, if its
| software bumps
| up the price of a computer by 100 per cent, people might look to
| alternatives.
|
| That means no MeII DRM infection lock in, no mass migration to the
| newer Office obfuscated and patented file formats, and worse yet,
| people might
| utter the W word. Yes, you guessed it, 'why'. People might ask why they
| are sticking with the MS lock in, and at that point, it is in deep
| trouble.
|
| Monopolies eventually overreach themselves and die. Maybe it's finally
| Microsoft's time to die. That would decrease the risk to the rest of us.
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http://riskman.typepad.com/perilocity/2007/04/abandoning_the_.html
He also said:
Schneier questions need for security industry
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| "We shouldn't have to come and find a company to secure our e-mail.
| E-mail should already be secure. We shouldn't have to buy from
| somebody to secure our network or servers. Our networks and servers
| should already be secure."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6179500.html
So Dan Geer lost his job for blaming Windows, eh? I guess the journlaists
haven't much guts nowadays that jobs are lost (online migration, blogging,
advertising trends).
Also see:
Dan Rather: Journalism has 'lost its guts'
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| To longtime CBS broadcaster Dan Rather, American journalism in recent
| years "has in some ways lost its guts."
|
| [...]
|
| I do not exclude myself from this criticism... By and large, so
| many journalists--there are notable exceptions--have adopted
| the go-along-to-get-along (attitude)," he said.
|
| [...]
|
| "In many ways," said Rather to loud applause, "what we in journalism
| need is a spine transplant."
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http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6166528.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
What happened to the guts?
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| Of one thing I am fairly certain. Microsoft all but eliminated
| mainstream software competition. As a result, Microsoft became
| the primary source of advertising revenue for mainstream publications.
| You don't bite the hand that feeds you. So instead of publishing
| issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses
| more on what you can't do than what you can do, you see special
| editions praising Vista as the greatest advancement in computing
| since Windows 95. Granted we all know that Windows 95 was a dog
| from day one, but by the 90s, the mainstream press had already
| become rampant with Microsoft sycophants and they pushed Windows
| 95 like it was the second coming.
|
| [...]
|
| In short, I'd love to see a mainstream publication become an
| advocate for the consumer once again.
|
| As noted above, there are exceptions, including Linux Journal,
| most other FOSS-centered publications and even The Register.
| But we're the little guys.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
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