[Full-Disclosure] Microsoft plans tighter security measures in Windows XP SP2

[Edward W. Ray]

 Microsoft spent $200M over six month securing Windows 2003 last year before
release.  Look how much good it did.  Total rewrite would have been a better
use of money and time.

My $0.02

Edward W. Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin at lists.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin at lists.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Georgi Guninski
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 1:16 PM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Cc: ksmith at chartwelltechnology.com; full-disclosure at lists.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Microsoft plans tighter security measures in
Windows XP SP2

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 13:27:36 -0500
Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> 1) Actually fix the software. Total rewrite, $200M.
> 2) Bribe all the major reporters of bugs. $20M.
> 

Bribing is not a panacea. If you look in history you will see that empires
go up and then disappear, people go on the scene and then disappear. The
number of m$ bugs increases, though.

As a .bg poem says:
"I fell, another one comes in my place, what the fsck does one person
matter" - full poem at - http://slovoto.org/f/en/vaptsarov/last.htm, don't
take worms in the computer sense ;)

georgi

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