Wednesday, January 11th, 2006, 8:31 am
The Baseless Security Promise
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Business as usual…
Slashdot has revealed to me this mild critique:
Four years ago, Bill Gates dispatched a companywide e-mail promising that security and privacy would be Microsoft’s top priorities. Gates urged that new design approaches must “dramatically reduce” the number of security-related issues as well as make fixes easier to administer. “Eventually,” he added, “our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it.”
The grim reality:
