Re: fog of cyberwar

["steve pirk [egrep]" <steve () pirk com>]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 18:26, phester <funsec () armorfirewall com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Jason Lewis wrote:
>
> > Has anyone considered thatt they knew about the vuln and the govt
> > asked them to not fix it until it was public?
>
>
> When you are talking about multinational corporations, the question may
> be; Which government?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2659857.stm


[quote]"The basic business decision that we decided to make here is that
Microsoft is willing to trust governments and willing to partner closely
with them," said Salah Dandan, the initiative's worldwide manager.[/quote]

This is "in response to competition with companies who offer "open source"
software..." The difference is that open source lets *everyone* see it.
Microsoft only trusts governments to see the source... and god forbid they
allow someone to  modify [fix] and redistribute it.

just my 2 cents worth... ;-]
-- 
steve pirk
refiamerica.org
"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune
kexp.org member august '09

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