INTERNET ROT is an unfortunate phenomenon that literature does not really suffer from. "This valuable link is dead again," argues our reader, who is rightly concerned by the absence of this old, widely-cited article which shows a reasonable explanation/cause for Microsoft's security mess (here is the copy held by the Internet Archive). Over the past few months we have been in touch with the author, Richard Stiennon, whose article was relocated and eventually vanished again from the new location.

"I'm wondering about the methodology," says our reader. "If that were known, we could write it up and induce a re-match and thus fresh debate on the insecurity of Windows server surrogates. Systrace is available for Linux and the BSDs, so it might be an option for that group."

Regarding that missing CNET article from last week, we were eventually informed that the article had been taken down because it came via an external news service. But either way, we still look forward to having the important article from Stiennon restored as he promised.

In conclusion -- and in relation to this article -- our reader humourously remarks: "Windows users can be summed up in three categories: those who know nothing about computers, those who care nothing about computers, and those who exploit the first two groups." ⬆