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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
Unfortunately, we see no outraged mobs with torches and pitchforks marching on Redmond or the offices of the poltically well-connected who have protected Microsoft from the punishment it deserves. Not only are the nation and the world subjected to the depradations of a vicious monopoly with next to no protection or oversight from agencies empowered to control such things, but the monopolist has saddled the world with junk and gotten away with it. Dangerous junk, at that.
Yes, there's another Microsoft security alert, more buffer overrun vulnerabilities that allow bad guys to load software for launching denial of service attacks, or do anything else they want with users' PCs.
The details may be found here and elsewhere. The security holes in question may be patched via the latest Microsoft fix posted today, apparently, just in time for tens of millions of Windows users to prepare for the latest round of cyber-vandalism some have predicted for tomorrow. (Incidentally, researchers at the CERT Coordination Center have known about this "latest" flaw for weeks already.) According to ZDNet,
"An attacker who successfully exploited either of the buffer overrun vulnerabilities could gain complete control over a remote computer," Microsoft stated in a bulletin released Wednesday. "This would give the attacker the ability to take any action that they wanted on the system [our emphasis], including changing Web pages, reformatting the hard disk or adding new users to the local administrators group."
Someday someone is going to do just that, reformat the hard drives on millions of computers simultaneously, and still Microsoft apologists will say things like the analyst quoted in the above-referenced article:
"But one of the things they promised with Trustworthy Computing was to do bulletins on a regular basis and deliver better patches, and they've followed through on that...The old way was to try to ignore everything and hope security wouldn't be a problem."
It's all very well and good that the miscreant confesses after every crime. If that's all that's necessary, what's the use of judges, laws, and prisons?
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