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Hello Gary & Mark,
I hope the both of you are attempting to make this information
available to the DoJ and to the prosicuting attorney's in the current
case against Microsoft.
you wrote:
>> 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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Namaste',
Mark
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