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Germany funds Microsoft stuff-ups
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| THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT has decided to spend
| a lot of its citizens' tax money helping
| them recover from malware directed at
| Microsoft machines.
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| Spiegel Online reports that the government
| wants to prop up another industry giant.
| The German Federal Office for Information
| Security (BSI) plans to team up with
| Internet service providers (ISPs) to
| establish a call centre helping Windows
| users who have malware problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1565351/germany-funds-microsoft-stuff-ups
Glyn Moody: "sends exactly the wrong signal: gives permission to code badly #security"
http://twitter.com/glynmoody/statuses/6476632008
Microsoft to Get Malware Bailout in Germany
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| With the economic crisis still being in
| full effect, Germany wants to throw
| government money at another industry
| giant. However, this time it is not an
| ailing car manufacturer, but the software
| producer Microsoft. The German Federal
| Office for Information Security (BSI)
| plans to team up with internet service
| providers (ISPs) to establish a call
| center helping malware-troubled Windows
| users.
|
| The project was announced today at the
| German IT summit in Stuttgart. Starting in
| 2010, ISPs will track down customers with
| infected PCs, e.g., by looking for
| communication with botnet controllers.
| These customers will then be directed to a
| special website offering advice on
| removing the malware. If this is
| unsuccessful (or the site is blocked by
| the malware), people will get access to a
| call center, where a staff of about 40
| will try to fix the problem.
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http://www.quantenblog.net/security/microsoft-malware-bailout
Germany pays to fix Microsoft users' computers
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| The German government has allocated a
| secret budget to fund call-centers to help
| Windows users whose PCs are infected with
| malware. Microsoft's support costs are
| thus being borne at taxpayer expense.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/08/germany-pays-to-fix.html
German government plans to fund Microsoft malware bailout
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/23291/
Recent:
DE: Interior minister: 'Open source reduces vendor lock-in and monopolies'
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| Using open source helps to avoid being locked-in by IT vendors
| and prevents IT services monopolies, says Wolfgang SchÃuble,
| Germany's minister of the Interior.
|
| "Free software has several other benefits, such as increasing
| the security of IT, because the source code can be verified,
| and enhancement of innovation, because anyone can participate
| in the development of such software", SchÃuble writes on
| Abgeordnetewatch.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/de-interior-minister-open-source-reduces-vendor-lock-in-and-monopolies
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