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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: If you have nothing to hide
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:02:41AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > > From: Sean Donelan <[email protected]> > > "Why is it that companies have sold products that they know are > > insecure?" asked Richard Clarke, President Bush's chief cybersecurity > > adviser. Perhaps he should ask his Vice-chairman on the CIP board, Howard Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt was apparently the Chief Security Officer at Microsoft during the recent few years. > I would have though he might better concern himself with why is > the Government still buying them. > > Market forces will ensure the supply of whatever is demanded, > the US federal and state government is presumably the single > largest purchaser in the IT market, yet still seems to be buying > plenty of products with dubious security records. > > Government purchasing changes have and could improve security, > where do you think Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login to NT came from, it > wasn't the Microsoft usuability department I'm sure. See above. > Let him who is without sin.....
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