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> It seems that Microsoft software developers gave no thought to how
> vulnerable their software can be to hackers when data sent to any
> number of modules is longer than what the developers intended.
Not only were they too clueless and unprofessional to think of doing
this in the first place, they CONTINUALLY keep making the same
sophomoric screwup. This has been a favorite hacker hole for YEARS,
since at least win95 that I'm aware of. Microsoft should have their
kneecaps broken for this.
Microsoft saves a few bucks and pushes their crap out onto the market
a few months sooner, and the rest of the world pays BILLIONS in
damages and lost productivity. See e.g.
http://www.computereconomics.com/cei/news/codered.html
I think Microsoft should be treated and regulated as a monopoly
utility, since that's effectively what they are. If the electric
company is too incompetent to keep the juice flowing, the Public
Utility Commission will fine and censure them. Somebody ought to do
the same thing to Microsoft. Slap some heavy fines on them (heavy
enough to HURT) every time their slipshod software practices allow
yet another gaping hole out into the world, and then maybe they'd
think twice about releasing untested and poorly-designed bugware.
Grump.
Gary
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