{"id":10084,"date":"2006-09-07T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/09\/07\/patch-management-and-the-bottom-line.html"},"modified":"2006-09-07T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T16:18:38","slug":"patch_managemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/patch_managemen.html","title":{"rendered":"Patch Management and the bottom line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Schneier asks (rhetorically) why is it that Micro$oft can only bring itself to issue patches once a month to clean up security holes in its operating system, browser, and applications … but is willing to scramble within days<\/a> to issue patches to its Digital Rights Management (DRM) software when someone out there finds a way to crack it?<\/p>\n

The obvious (rhetorical) answer: money. Broken OS\/browser\/applications aren’t going to (yet) seriously impact the M$ bottom line. Causing media companies to think that their recordings aren’t safe, though, if they use the Micro$oft platform will. Thus the scramble to patch these gaps as soon as they come up.<\/p>\n

It’s not that M$ is necessarily evil or wrong for this. But it’s indicative of where their true interests are (only peripherally with their end-user community), and who they’re willing to do what for to protect those interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruce Schneier asks (rhetorically) why is it that Micro$oft can only bring itself to issue patches once a month to clean up security holes in its operating system, browser, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-hi-tech","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4155,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/28\/patch_it_just_p.html","url_meta":{"origin":10084,"position":0},"title":"Patch it! 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