Code Red puts Microsoft in hot seat

Post #3,815 by brettj 8/4/01 9:56:05 AM Reply	Code Red puts Microsoft in hot seat Between Code Red and SirCam, you can bet that companies are looking at alternatives. The other day I talked to a guy at a big company and they were shutting down all computers every time one got the SirCam virus. It was getting around their firewall through Hotmail accounts. He was not a happy camper! [link\|http://computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO62787,00.html\|Code Red puts Microsoft in hot seat] By DAN VERTON (August 03, 2001) WASHINGTON -- It was a scene that would be familiar to officials at Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. An executive from Microsoft Corp. watched as a government official told a gathering of reporters that there was a serious problem with a Microsoft product. Ronald Dick, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, this week warned that the Code Red computer worm was spreading rapidly across the Internet for the third time in less than three weeks (see story). It was taking advantage of a vulnerability discovered in the Web server software that runs on Microsoft's popular Windows 2000 and NT operating systems (see story). The health of the Internet and e-commerce was at stake, the government warned. But unlike the case with faulty tires from Firestone, Microsoft's problem wasn't life-threatening, and it didn't lead to a massive product recall. Instead, it cost businesses around the world more than $1 billion, according to some estimates, and hundreds of man-hours to fix. That has led some users and experts to argue that it's time to demand more secure software from vendors. .... Because of the security issues associated with Microsoft software, "we are looking at other technologies," said a chief technology officer at a pharmaceutical supply company in the Northeast who requested anonymity. "There are other Web servers out there. Microsoft's customers have to demand better software."
Post #3,821 by Ashton 8/4/01 4:27:34 PM Reply	That seat will be hot enough only when.. we can smell burning bullshit in a 3000 mi. radius from Redmond. "People have every right to expect reliable, secure software," said Jay Nickson, a security trainer at Ronin Software Group in West Chesterfield, N.H. He added that developers should be responsible if errors in their software result in lost profits, lost hours or bodily harm. He even suggested that it might be time for a "software users' bill of rights." But Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, a security research organization in Bethesda, Md., said that's a long shot. A routine check of the terms of the agreement included with every shrink-wrapped package of software from Microsoft and other developers would show that users "have no rights at all," he said. So.. who is forming the PAC for Software Bill of Rights ??? What? you say that no one has quite gotten around to it? Too much fun to piss and moan 24/7 since ~ 1993? Too much like a 'union' maybe - to 'organize' all them induhviduals. Yeah, that must be the reason. Oh well. {sigh} Well, maybe in 2002 - right after extended vacation. If it seems like the thing to do, then. Now if every (well Lots) IT-employed person were to donate a mere $5: how much PAC would that buy in Year1? Of course it isn't quite the same thing as.. the world outcry over Nazi extermination camps, once these became common knowledge - and all. (What..? you say there Wasn't such? Oh. Right. Forgot.) never mind LRPD below: Nearly sentient.
Post #3,831 by boxley 8/4/01 7:31:27 PM Reply	even better, who knows a good liar<h<h lawyer take these new cybercrime laws and apply them to redmond. If you put out malicious code thru gross negligence then charge them for the lost downtime at (the ridiculous amount of .59 cents a second has been bandied about) times how many machines and make it a class action. The tobbacco Lawyers would be a good group for that, thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk

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