Re: Bill Gates blames the victim

[Petr Swedock <petr () blade-runner mit edu>]

"Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> writes (quotes):

   ;; 
   ;;    Q. "The buffer overrun flaw that made the Blaster worm 
   ;;    possible was specifically targeted in your code reviews 
   ;;    last year. Do you understand why the flaw that led to 
   ;;    Blaster escaped your detection?"
   ;; 
   ;;    A. "Understand there have actually been fixes for all of 
   ;;    these things before the attack took place. The challenge 
   ;;    is that we've got to get the fixes to be automatically 
   ;;    applied without our customers having to make a special effort."

"Don't trust our software. But do trust our patching/update process..."

Nice.

Peace,

Petr

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