More analytical hi-jinx from the Register, looking at how Micro$oft’s security modus operandi sucks chunks:
Bear in mind that most, if not all, of this virtual mayhem was not the work of elite computer criminals. It was committed by bored teenagers who cobbled together attack scripts that continue to be traded around the Internet like baseball cards. And regardless of the misery they have caused and continue to cause, and despite the profane amounts of money they’ve cost their victims, Microsoft’s spin has always been the same — a sort of smile and dissimulate medley that exonerates Microsoft, blames ‘hackers,’ and promises a brighter tomorrow.
The author does a good job showing how M$’s intransigence at addressing security problems, both basic and specific, has forced security researchers further and further into full disclosure of security holes — which M$ then terms “information anarchy” and blames for the security problems in the first place.
It’s as if you called the police to report a burglary, and they told you they’d step up patrols in that area (though they’d be plainclothes cops, so you won’t be able to confirm it), but they wouldn’t actually have anyone visit your house, because that would let other burglars know that someone was able to get into your house, and how.
Does that strike anyone else as goofy? If not arrogant or criminal?