Re: VMS Cracked! [was: Linux is the favourite hacker target]

From: Keith Parris (keithparris_NOSPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/26/03 

Date: 26 Sep 2003 14:28:58 -0700

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> wrote in message news:<3F7489E1.5487941D@istop.com>...
> But when they hired Cuttler and al to write NT, (and windows 95), they could
> have decided to start from a clean slate and stop adding security issues with
> each bell and whistle they wanted.

Windows 95 was not Cutler's -- that's what NT had to be compatible
with.

You can't have a clean slate and backward compatability at the same
time.

Microsoft valued creating powerful (but easily-abused) features over
system security.

> I think that one problem is that Billy Gates was so late in acknowledging the
> internet that the early versions just didn't think about internet as a vehicle
> for viri, and by the time Gates acknowledged the internet, the security
> problems were already well rooted into his software.

The problem started much earlier than that. Gates failed to
acknowledge floppy disks as a vehicle for virii.

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