full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft Coding / National Security Risk

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Message-ID: <20040324212415.GA21197@piper.madduck.net>
From: madduck at madduck.net (martin f krafft)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Coding / National Security Risk

also sprach Richard Hatch <r.hatch@...s.qinetiq.com> [2004.03.24.1110 +0100]:
> Take a team of really really good C/C++ coders with excellent
> security vulnerability knowledge and have them go through the
> source code for windows (starting with the core functionality and
> internet facing functionality maybe).  Find these bugs (including
> methodical black-box testing against the binaries) and fix them.

You will have a hard time, given the patched OS that Windoze is.
Where design is flawed you can't add security.

Instead, find these really good coders and funding for them to
improve open source software so it finally becomes a viable
alternative; then convince people to switch.

> Microsoft Windows is not just another piece of software, it has
> become a fundamental part of businesses and governments.

and a major nuisance in all of our lives.

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