full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?

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Message-ID: <733820000.1079714888@utd49554.utdallas.edu>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Security, baby steps ?

--On Friday, March 19, 2004 10:15:06 AM +0000 Random Letters 
<randomisedletters@...mail.com> wrote:

> <opinion>
>
> The only way to 100% secure a Windows client machine is to take it away
> from the user and lock it in a cupboard.
>
[snipped a bunch in the middle.
>
> If Windows was 100% secure, why bother at all with patches and virus
> updates?

Write this on the chalkboard 100 times.

"Nothing is 100% secure!  Nothing is 100% secure!  Nothing is 100% secure!"

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu