Evening tech news: Microsoft today warned about a serious flaw in all versions of its popular Windows software that could spurred by the attack on Iraq and worries about a rise in terrorist attacks.
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Sounds like a poor mans Remote Desktop to me, hehe
And microsoft wants governments to use their OS??
What dumb governement would do that?
How does the ms flaw fit into the category of technology and why does macnn include it in it's new report?
They could replace that nonsense with better news imho.
A hacker programs for fun. A cracker breaks into systems. Hackers are responsible for a fair part of the cute software we use, e.g. PHP -- used on MacNN -- that started as a hack. When I say 'started as a hack', nobody thinks the first version of PHP was used to break into a protected system. So why oh why people always mix hackers with crackers?
We hear about flaws in Windows just about every week. This one is only the latest, but not the last one I guess
Why is MS flaw news? I just read the Biz 2.0 magazine and one of its listing is a MS exec that said 'All OS suck" and it's true. We now know that sendmail, SAMBA, etc all have their shares of flaws. MS has more and is certainly inexcusable for that but when's the last time you heard anyone whose computer was taken over by visiting a hacked web site or malformed e-mail etc?
maybe because not everyone is stuck in their own Mac-only world where they don't have to care about windows. And it usually seems that MS flaws affect ALL users, while flaws found on other sytems (your samba or sendmail examples) usually affect just those systems that have turned on these services.
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