[ale] Experts: Reliance On Microsoft A Danger To National Security

[Frank Zamenski]

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:20:45PM -0400, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> 
> >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
> 
> Oh, the irony.
> 
> The article does make some good points.  I am frankly astounded that a
> Microsoft spokesman would actually utter the phrase "We always 
consider
> security to be our absolute top priority" in public.
> 
> Maybe I'm just getting cynical, but I predict that the report will get
> lots of air time on geek sites like slashdot and newsforge, but will
> have absolutely zero effect on aynone who actually makes any of these
> decisions.
> 
> Jason

IMO, very little. I'm just not so sure that even a true, co-ordinated, 
crippling, terrorist compromise to national security via the net would 
have anyone pulling their Msft systems en masse, unless some state of 
emergency was declared and the country was ordered to shutdown all non-
essential networking. We all know Msft is just too interwoven into our 
national financial picture for the gov to let it die off. And many of 
us with any kind of retirement plan whatsover likely have money in Msft 
stocks also, perhaps indirectly buried so deeply we are not even aware 
of it.


> 
> P.S.
> Please don't start a new thread by replying to a message and changing
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08/threads.html#01942
> The thread I'm referring to has the subject "Resize /dev/md0", but
> notice that after two responses the subject becomes "web server".  
That
> message, and its replies, are still a part of the original thread, 
even
> though they clearly have nothing to do with it.
> -- 
> Jason Day                                       jasonday at
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