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Microsoft Exec calls for âInternet Driverâs Licenseâ
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| This is why I am sure that Mr. Mundie will
| begin implementing a license test for
| Microsoft Windows. You see, there are by
| some reports over 9 million âzombieâ Windows
| machines disrupting internet use by relaying
| spam and spreading malware, and while Mr.
| Mundie may not be able to create an Internet
| Driverâs License, he is certainly in the
| position to promote a Microsoft Windows
| Driverâs License.
|
| Mr. Mundie asserts that some authority needs
| be able to âorganize the systematic
| quarantine of machines that are
| compromised.â Who is in a better position
| that Microsoft itself to require and verify
| the proper ability of potential Microsoft
| Windows users to be responsible, and in turn
| to deny that use if necessary?
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/02/microsoft-exec-calls-for-internet-drivers-license/
Subject: [IP] Lauren Weinstein -- Microsoft's Police State Vision? Exec Calls for Internet "Driver's Licenses"
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| So when someone who really should know
| better starts to push this sort
| of incredibly dangerous concept, it's time
| to bump up to orange alert
| at a minimum, and the trigger is no less
| than Craig Mundie, chief
| research and strategy officer for Microsoft.
|
| At the World Economic Forum in Davos two
| days ago, Mundie explicitly
| called for an "Internet Driver's License":
| "If you want to drive a
| car you have to have a license to say that
| you are capable of driving
| a car, the car has to pass a test to say it
| is fit to drive and you
| have to have insurance." (
| http://bit.ly/aWJ2ed )
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http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/201002/msg00010.html
Craig Mundie Wants "Internet Driver's Licenses"
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/04/2249241/Craig-Mundie-Wants-Internet-Drivers-Licenses
Recent:
Twitter briefly knocked offline by hackers (again)
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| Twitter suffered from yet more security jitters on Tuesday night, after
| another attack left the site briefly unavailable.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/twitter_outage_again/
Aussie arrested in botnet allegation
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| Inspector Blue Knacker of the Adelaide Yard claims that the 20 year old is
| also suspected of having developed software capable of launching virus
| attacks on 74,000 computers worldwide.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1529128/aussie-arrested-botnet-allegation
Recent:
Should Microsoft be Liable for its Flaws?
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| The recent attacks on Twitter and Facebook, probably using Windows botnets,
| have highlighted an old issue: whether Microsoft should be held responsible
| for the flaws in its software that cause such costly global downtimes.
|
| At first glance, it's an attractive option. After all, it could be argued
| that the company has made billions of dollars of profit from software that
| has caused billions of dollars of losses for users around the world, and so
| it would be only fair if some of that unjustly gained dosh were redistributed
| to those who have suffered at its hands.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2437&blogid=14
Nine MS security bulletins create busy updates workload
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| Microsoft released the expected nine patches - five critical - as part of a
| busy August Patch Tuesday update that focuses primarily on client-side
| vulnerabilities.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/12/nokia_maemo_smartphone/
New banking code cracks down on out-of-date software
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| The banking industry has re-affirmed a policy that makes online banking
| customers responsible for losses if they have out of date anti-virus or
| anti-phishing protection. New Banking Codes for consumers and businesses took
| effect on Monday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/banking_code_2008/
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Secure web browsing through Live Linux distros
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| Banking isn't the be-all and end-all: there's many other reasons you'd
| want a secure system, separate from what's on the hard disk, besides
| Internet banking. Traveller's can't necessarily trust the integrity of
| a computer in an Internet cafe.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13292/53/
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
|
| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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