Windows Vista is not a secure operating system and Vista 7 is the same. The ramifications can be very serious and no level of censorship can hide it. According to this report from the Identity Theft Resource Center, the leaking of sensitive data is rising sharply due to inappropriate means of securing it.
More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
“Each and every one of us pays for the damage, as costs are collective and our data is centralised not only on our personal computers.”What is responsible for this and who is to blame? Well, based on empirical evidence, it's Microsoft that has failed. It failed not because it's an impossible task to secure software but because, as the manager of Windows said a few years ago, "our products just aren't engineered for security."
Let's consider GNU/Linux for a second. The platform runs in an environment that's highly connected; it runs on a very large number of boxes endlessly. In September 2008, said Steve Ballmer: “Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux..."**
If GNU/Linux was not secure, wouldn't many of the Web servers out there be compromised? Evidently, they rarely do. Software that's installed on them with uploaders is a vector of weakness, but that too has not caused much harm.
On the other hand we have Windows, which is once again under a worm attack, according to this new report.
Business systems are being attacked by a worm exploiting a known Microsoft vulnerability, IT security experts have warned.
It would have been good to have some equivalent of Delilah on Windows to negate the role of this browser, but, sadly there is none. There are some third-party applications like XPlite , developed by Australian Shane Brooks, which do remove most of IE but then which browser do you use to update Windows? Only IE supports ActiveX.
You can, of course, move from XP to Vista where the updates are done through the control panel but that would be the equivalent of offering a man a choice between arsenic and cyanide for breakfast.
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he wrote: "Another suggestion In this mail was that we can’t make our own unilateral extensions to HTML I was going to say this was wrong and correct this also."
[T]he sort of social media trouble quotient appears to have risen a bit as fake LinkedIn profiles are trying to send users towards malware.
--Bill Gates [PDF]
Hostility towards (X)HTML came from the top
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2009-01-09 10:43:44
Since the new, incoming US administration will be looking at economic initiatives, it will be of great value to get rid of M$ products. That's just treating the symptom and not curing the problem. What also needs to happen is that the MSFT boosters who have operated as if part of a larger organized crime ring need to be called to task. Damages need to be recouped, dues to society need to be paid, and places where the cannot make further harm need to be found.
David Gerard
2009-01-09 20:55:36
David Gerard
2009-01-09 18:09:03
AlexH
2009-01-09 18:10:43
Roy Schestowitz
2009-01-09 18:29:36