How Internet Criminals Will Evade Vista's Safeguards
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| Think malware will fade away with Vista? Sorry. There's about as much
| chance of the thriving throngs of online criminals packing up shop
| as there is of Microsoft doing the same.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131581/article.html
Why you should not upgrade to Vista!
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| Cost - That thing is way over priced! I mean come on, Microsoft are
| trying to milk us on this one. I think it would be better to
| consider something like Linux perhaps?
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http://tigerplug.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/why-you-should-not-upgrade-to-vista/
This comes from a Mac user. This guy happens to be HotLinking my image as it
turns out...
Yesterday:
How my lack of understanding of how processes exit on Windows XP forced a
security patch to be recalled
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| Last year, a Windows security update got a lot of flack for causing some
| machines to hang, and it was my fault.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/04/2402028.aspx
Insecurity by Obscurity
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| Consider, on this, what Bruce Schneier says in the introduction to the
| second edition of his Applied Cryptography...
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| That's the simple answer: open source lets developers see their methods
| and their code as others see them - enabling them to understand and correct
| vulnerabilities that might well be invisible to people working in more
| proprietary environments.
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| [...]
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| And it's also, of course, the ultimate reason obscurity is a very poor
| form of defence.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=855
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