Saturday, November 8, 2003

Microsoft Security Flaws Threaten Business Microsoft Corp.'s offer this week of cash bounties for informants who help it collar virus-writers reflects more than just an escalation of the war on those who would exploit the dominant power in software. The campaign reveals just how much of a threat to Microsoft's bottom line security flaws now represent. When the Blaster worm hobbled hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in August -- only the latest plague to exploit a flaw in Windows operating systems -- it also hurt Microsoft's ability to book new contracts with corporate customers. For the first time, it seemed, flaws in Microsoft's software are translating into flaws in the company's business model. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 4:08:52 PM

White House Puts Limits on Queries From Democrats The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers. [blogdex] 10:28:16 AM

Jessica Lynch Criticizes U.S. Accounts of Her Ordeal In her first public statements since her rescue in Iraq, Jessica Lynch criticized the military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and re-casting her ordeal as a patriotic fable. Asked by the ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer if the military's portrayal of the rescue bothered her, Ms. Lynch said: "Yeah, it does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff. Yeah, it's wrong." [blogdex] 10:14:06 AM

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