On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:02:41AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> "Why is it that companies have sold products that they know are insecure?" asked Richard Clarke, President Bush's chief cybersecurity adviser.
Perhaps he should ask his Vice-chairman on the CIP board, Howard Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt was apparently the Chief Security Officer at Microsoft during the recent few years.
I would have though he might better concern himself with why is the Government still buying them.
Market forces will ensure the supply of whatever is demanded, the US federal and state government is presumably the single largest purchaser in the IT market, yet still seems to be buying plenty of products with dubious security records.
Government purchasing changes have and could improve security, where do you think Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login to NT came from, it wasn't the Microsoft usuability department I'm sure.
See above.
Let him who is without sin.....