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Posted by CowboyNeal (37% noise) View
Elitist_Phoenix writes “Reuters reports that ‘Microsoft is to give the U.S. government priority in fixing security holes in Windows and other software, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Under a plan to take effect later this year, Microsoft will give the U.S. Air Force versions of software ‘patches’ to fix serious security vulnerabilities up to a month before they are available to others.’ Yet another attempt to fight off impending doom, by trying to keep the government away from open source?”
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So, who do they upset most? - by malkavian (Score: 4, Insightful) Thread
The Military for having to Beta test MS’ latest patches (they’ll be the one whose systems crash most by having patches applied that haven’t met the real world before), or Commerce, who suddenly realise that they’re going to be getting cracked hard, by something MS knows about, has a fix, and just can’t be bothered to give them a cure for..
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Crazy, no? - by Toby The Economist (Score: 4, Insightful) Thread
This seems crazy on a number of levels.
Is the airforce more important than say, nuclear power plant operators?
While it’s concieveable there could sometimes be some advantage in releasing a beta version of a security fix, there is no advantage whatsoever in merely delaying the general release of a patch, so MS must have agreed to supply early versions of patches to the USAF.
This, I predict, will cause more problems than it will solve.
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Toby
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This is obvious… - by sgant (Score: 5, Funny) Thread
Prof. Frink: It’s because the Government as the troops and the guns and the tanks and the fire falling from the sky with the burning people running amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving…
That’s why the Goverment is first.
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Safety First - by DogDaySunrise (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread
Sounds a lot more like “Microsoft will delay patches for a month after availability, except to the US Govt”. Surely it’d be a lot safer for the US Govt Ltd. for M$ to supply patches to *everyone*, governments included, instead of allowing vulnerabilities to lie unpatched for a few weeks…?!?
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Haha - by 26199 (Score: 5, Funny) Thread
So they’re getting the government to beta-test their patches? Sweet.
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