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CCIA: reconsider decision to use Microsoft

updated 05:15 am EDT, Tue September 2, 2003

The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the Department of Homeland Security to on its desktop and server systems, citing "major security failures" created by the raft of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's developer's products, according to TechWeb: "Because of these recent developments, historical experience, and the inherent risks associated with lack of diversity, we ask that you reconsider your heavy reliance on a single, flawed software platform to protect our national security."

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09/02, 06:22am | report spam | close Reply |
MS = NOT SECURE

I would feel way more secure knowing that MS swiss cheese code was not (trying) to secure our nation.

Sobig of a mistake using the MS platform!

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A NoBrainer

If you rely on one company or service for all your needs you will get burned soon or later. As the US Gov. is a major customer they should try to use all the various platforms and OSes out there.

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Redundancy

The Department of Homeland Security should not be relying on ANY one OS, be it Windows, Mac OS X, Linux etc. The fact Ridge accepted this idea does not instill any confidence in his leadership (and I'm not trying to start some political war here. Just an observation on his technical knowledge).

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Please...

Do any of you think that our current administration has any credibility in the eyes of IT? They KNOWINGLY used this POS operating system for homeland security...what a freakin joke.

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website

has anyone here been to the CCIA website? Everything there is pretty much an attack on MS.

They seem to be an anti-MS lobby.

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M$ downfall

China and Japan are looking into replacing M$ and now the US? Europe I'm sure is to follow. Little by little, computer by computer, M$ is going to loose their control. I'm so happy Apple chose *nix over BeOS, this is exactly why. Unix may because the flavor of choice and that does us well.

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BeOS

is UNIX-based.

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re: website

What's your point? So they're anti-M$...not only do they have a right to speak their opinion, but if they're using facts to back their claims, their argument becomes very legitimate. We all know M$ hasn't had the best security track record. Why should anyone take it easy on them until they've proven to have changed their ways?

Don't make me call you a troll...

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re:BeOS

"is UNIX-based"

Back up that claim.

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BeOS

is NOT Unix. I was the person that asked to back up your claim, and a simple search revealed a Q and A.

"The BeOS is not Unix- or Mach-based (we're a little sensitive about being compared with 1970s technology). It is a completely new operating system, written from the ground up.
While it's a new design, it does owe much to UNIX/Mach in some of the design decisions we made. If you're interested in some of the deeper details, check out the XINU (that's "Unix" spelled backwards, which cries out for a joke here...) book listed in The Be Bookstore:
http://www.be.com/purchase/bookstore.html"

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.....can you hear that???

.....can you hear that?....the winds of change.....

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No microsoft...

...but I don't see them recommending Apple.

Why not?

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Go CCIA!

Agenda or no, the CCIA is *absolutely right* about the pitfalls of a sole-source supplier for something this critical. The government should be forced to audit every branch and computer seat and justify their over-reliance on Windows (and replace them with other OSes wherever possible).

We've all already seen the BILLIONS of dollars in damage a worm written by a teenager can do. Now imagine a worm TARGETED at our defense computers or national infrastructure, written by expert programmers. It's just a question of time before this happens.

Write your congresscritter and DEMAND that the gov't (and in particular the DoHS) investigate and implement a diversification program to enhance our national security *immediately.*

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Cost of Cleaning Windows

.....the simple truth is that over the years the international business problems caused by the downtime of Windows is in the staggering billions, way beyond the net value of M$, inclusive of Gates's net worth.

Not one of you bean counters can dispute that fact, troll or not.

To continue in this direction is purely suicidal, just as in deregulating clean air and water acts, clean fuel mandates, better education, etc.

Hopefully someday more of the masses will understand logic.

I learned logic from running Pascal on a Apple circa 1984.....

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but... but...

Microsoft says they ARE secure! They say they have 99.999% uptime! Surely they never lie to their buying public, would they?

They are so big and have so much money, surely they can produce the ultimate OS. Haven't they already done it???

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MS

actually Microsoft has openly admitted that they are NOT secure and that they will not be secure until Longhorn

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President Gore

If the winner of the 2000 presidential election were in the White House, in place of that war-mongering squatter there now, we could rest assured that the Department of Vaterland, oops, Homeland Security would be rich in Unix-based computers--maybe even Mac OS X.

But no, Dumbsh!t Dubya doesn't even think about it, and if by some miracle he did attempt to understand the arguments for and against using M$ computers, his short attention span would kick in and that would be the end of it. After all, Dumba$$ worships at the altar of corporatism. By Dubya's standards M$ MUST be awesome, because only the best could build a monopolistic empire. By Dubya's standards M$ is a good model for the establishment of an American World Empire, of the corporations, by the corporations, and FOR the corporations.

Yeah, I know, I really hate that motherfscker. But don't fret, my post is entirely Fair and Balanced!
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CCIA: reconsider decision to use Microsoft

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re:BeOS

BeOS

.....can you hear that???

No microsoft...

Go CCIA!

Cost of Cleaning Windows

but... but...

MS

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