Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:12:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Chip McClure <vhm3@hades.gigguardian.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source Message-ID: <20020521180055.D98860-100000@hades.gigguardian.com> In-Reply-To: <p05111718b910898a5694@[10.0.1.4]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Brad, I read this one late last night on Slashdot as well. I really can't say that I'm surprised that M$ is trying to use this as a crutch to keep the US government from forcing the opening of the code. However - if it is so dangerously flawed, how can the US govt. keep running this on publicly available systems? Now that the knowledge is out there, in the Black Hat community, as well as nations which are less than frioendly to the US, isn't this an open invitation to attempt to bring the US Govt systems to their knees? Let alone various financial institutions? Honestly, I think this is truly a pathetic attempt on M$'s part. Brad, I whole heartedly agree with you, that this is a breach of national security on the part of Micro$oft. Not only for the US govt, but also that of other governments & institutions where peoples lives depend on the protection of sensitive data. For many many years, Micro$oft has thumbed their noses at security. Now, it's coming full circle, and going to slam the bunch of them in the face. Just my less than $0.02 worth... Chip - ----- Chip McClure Sr. Unix Administrator GigGuardian, Inc. http://www.gigguardian.com/ - ----- On Wed, 22 May 2002, Brad Knowles wrote: > Folks, > > Found this from > <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2124248&mode=thread&tid=109>: > > MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source > Microsoft | Posted by timothy on Mon 20 May 10:34PM > from the so-bad-we-can't-display-it dept. > > guacamolefoo writes: "It was recently reported in eWeek that "A > senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that > sharing information with competitors could damage national security > and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later > acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be > safely disclosed." (Emphasis added.) The follow up from Microsoft is > even better: As a result of the flaws, Microsoft has asked the court > to allow a "national security" carve-out from the requirement that > any code or API's be made public. Microsoft has therefore taken the > position that their code is so bad that it must kept secret to keep > people from being killed by it. Windows - the Pinto of the 21st > century." > > > The story that they were linking to is at > <http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp>. > > > Now, who else thinks that we should take this opportunity to file > charges of high treason against Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and other > senior members of Microsoft management, because through their actions > "very grave harm to national security interests" would result if the > source code were opened? > > Now, who else thinks that this is yet another ruse by Microsoft, > and that what we should really try to do is catch them in their > biggest and most blatent example of perjury, and catch them as they > majorly shit their pants and do the biggest and fastest volte-face > the world has ever seen, once the criminal charges are filed? > > -- > Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iQA/AwUBPOrwoJuKtP8CSC69EQKiLwCfa2Joe78EQm7yn9CNVz46R/SBlCsAoIww 7prLbAv3Vy/MXkPkpMDTmUpn =ukvn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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