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| Wrong way to go....
Every vendor has a duty to provide high quality, secure applications. While Microsoft's "new" efforts to start incorporating more security into their apps is a good thing, this is not the way to go about it.
No one company should be the ones responsible for developing any new "standards" which so obviously are designed to benefit them and them alone.
What I don't think Microsoft quite understands, is that should Cringley et al's predictions come true, and MS tries to replace TCP with "something else" which is supposed to be more secure, and they end up in an even greater world domination stance, they will most certainly place themselves in further danger of being highly regulated.
Ever see "The Net".....there was one company that everyone trusted as the only way to go for security....and it turned out to be a sham. Now this may be a glorified example, but IMHO it isn't all that unbelievable. I think something like that could, or perhaps in some ways already has - happened.
While they are including several other vendors in this -- the usual suspects like Intel and AMD of course, I certainly see some underlying issues here that start to get a bit too "HAL" like for me.
Only time will tell, but I think the prudent path is one of caution.
K.
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The slackjaw gaze of true profanity, feels more like surrender than defeat - If culture is the curse of the thinking class
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