Journal FortKnox's Journal: Slashthink post of the day! 11
In reference to MS giving info on bugs/exploits to paying customers a guy responds like so. My response is one of his replies.
Now, I am a giant computer user... but sweet hell, there is life outside of computers... life and death situation == a computer bug or exploit? There's some priorities in need of a swift kick in the ass right there, folks.
Now, I am a giant computer user... but sweet hell, there is life outside of computers... life and death situation == a computer bug or exploit? There's some priorities in need of a swift kick in the ass right there, folks.
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Anyway, if the claim about Microsoft is true (and it seems pretty preliminary), there are two explanations that occur to me:
1) This is a bandwidth issue, and they want to make sure their top customers get patches before throwing the floodgates open.
2) They've decided to use security patches as a revenue source.
The first is just stupid -- they are freaking Microsoft, a
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jason
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This reminded me of the episode of Murphy Brown where Stuart Best [imdb.com] is running for Congress. He ends up reciving substantial donatinos from all sorts of random militant & randical groups. They brought him onto the show with two other candidates to discuss the issues, and he kept having to make these insane statements:
Slavery is a bad word... but welfare is a worse one!
Are you suggesting we re-institute slavery?!
"I believe I am. Of course, if someone doesn't wan
911 (Score:2)
You never know (Score:2)
In this case it wasn't a life and death situation (I hav
FUD. (Score:2)
The Tower/TRACON/Enroute/Oceanic control systems? Yeah, those don't run on windows. And the surface visualization tools? Only the client viewers run on windows. And those are not safety critical systems, either.
Most of those systems are closed. Even if they did run windows, there is no chance for virus to survive make your time.
As for the parts that are open: And a year or two ago during the first big
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-Airport (DLL error on one of the arriving/departing flight screens)
-McDonald's driveup (yesterday in fact) another DLL error
-Hospital (many many monitors run Windows). That is scary as hell if you figure they might actually be monitoring something you care about (fetal heartbeat for example?)
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When we were in the hospital with our wee one yes, the fetal heartrate and later respiration//bloodpressure/oxygen levels were diplayed via a windows computer. However, the computer only provided a purdy GUI for the data. The actual machine doing the reading had raw numbers displayed and also had its own alarms.
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