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Let us not forget...
Authored by: albert on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 11:03 AM EDT
the special software MS has written to help law enforcement access MS databases.


Does MS cozy relationship with the government have anything to do with their
extensive lobbying?

Just a thought....

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Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them
Authored by: artp on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 12:27 PM EDT
From the article:

Suddenly the "blanket immunity" clauses in CISPA make a lot of sense. The whole point of CISPA, it appears, is to further protect these companies when this kind of information comes out.

If and when this actually gets to court, I am looking forward to the discussions where the judicial branch decides if international treaties negotiated by the executive branch, but not ratified by the legislative branch, are actually binding.

In other words, is that immunity clause actually effective? I would love to hear otherwise, and know that common sense says that you cannot make an end run around the people's constitutional rights. What a land grab!

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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley sinks ?

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Microsoft depends on .gov to fix Zero Day Exploits
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 02:58 PM EDT
lol

Or maybe it's because Microsoft can't figure out how to fix the vulnerabilities
and depends on the NSA to slip them a fix under the table. If that's the case,
then in about 20 years, Windows may actually be (almost) safe enough to use
outside of a sand box. Developers, developers, developers! :)))

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Adobe contributes also
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 03:47 PM EDT
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Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them
Authored by: albert on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 04:18 PM EDT
The sooner we get rid of Flash (and Java), the better off we'll be.

There's no place for proprietary code in secure operating systems.

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