Saturday, October 28, 2000

How Did The MS Crack Happen? -- 10:52 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

That's the musical question that this Wired article is asking. Here's a quote from one security consultant that I found interesting:

"I tell my clients to isolate all valuable information off the network. There's something about this whole Microsoft hack that doesn't make sense. Either they thought they were invincible, or they left a door very open for reasons I can't even begin to guess at."

The Master and I talked about that last night. We couldn't figure out why in the world Microsoft would have the source for their products on a server that was accessible from the Internet. It makes no sense. Here's another dandy quote:

Jonathan Addams, a freelance security consultant, says that virtually any firewall can be bypassed if the organization behind that firewall has "the Outlook e-mail program, a Windows NT box as the server and just one dim employee."

Here's to hoping that this fiasco teaches M$ a lesson so they actually do something about the security (or lack thereof) of their products, particularly Outlook. Thanks Linux Today.

J.t.Qbe comments: I love the irony of it: Microsoft refuses to a) admit that its software has security problems or b) fix those problems, and then Microsoft itself gets cracked. I remain silent. This one just goes beyond sarcastic comments.

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