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| Time: 04:23 EST/09:23 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft, whose software has been at the center of several recent high-profile security incidents, has decided to turn up the heat on those the company considers at least partially responsible: security firms and hackers who release sample programs to exploit software flaws. This week, Scott Culp, manager for Microsoft's security response center, published an essay on the company's site decrying the information and example code released by some companies and independent security consultants as "information anarchy." Such information led directly to many of this year's most vicious worm attacks, he said. "It's high time the security community stopped providing the blueprints for building these weapons," Culp wrote in the essay. "And it's high time that computer users insisted that the security community live up to its obligation to protect them." The essay reopens the debate among security professionals over whether information on software flaws should be kept confidential or freely publicized. | ||
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| #1 By 1124 (165.170.128.65) at 10/18/2001 8:02:32 AM |
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#2, I disagree with the first part of your note. When these code snips are published and MS release a patch. Lots of system admins don't utilize this patch and we have lots of problems.
Therefore, if code snips were not released we would not have idiots writing lots of bad programs. Why not send the code snips to MS. Lots of these guys just want their 15 minutes. I agree that they (MS) are doing better with the with XP. |
| #2 By 111 (66.45.64.209) at 10/18/2001 8:43:50 AM |
| This is absolute bull. The people responsible for the security flaws are the software designers. Placing blame on anyone else is completely irresponsible. |
| #3 By 1124 (165.170.128.65) at 10/18/2001 9:10:35 AM |
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#4, As a software engineer, I know that all software have bugs. If I sit around and try to find bugs in the most popular (large)software in the world and publish them then I am wrong.
People love to compare software to other products and they don't know what they are talking about. |
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