Re: Purely for your amusement

From: Chuck Hamilton <chuckh_at_softhome.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:34:53 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0055D2BE.20030228103453@fatcity.com>

RE: Purely for your amusementDo not fear. Australia is catching up quickly. I've gotten two "MS security patches" emailed to me in the last two days from a ISP in AU. I wonder if anyone actually falls for this stuff.

• Original Message ----- From: Nick Wagner To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:48 PM Subject: RE: Purely for your amusement

  hmmm...

  ok, let's give one of the largest known hacking/cracking/virii producing countries in the world, the source code to the most common desktop in the world for 'security' purposes?

  Bill has got be to smokin' something...

  Any bets on how long it will take the source code to make it on the net?

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  From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca]   Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:19 AM   To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L   Subject: RE: Purely for your amusement

  Excerpt from
  http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/5286   438.htm

  Microsoft committed to providing Chinese government with information   necessary to buy Microsoft products: The Chinese government will soon be   able to view the source code for the Windows operating system, now that it   has agreed to participate in Microsoft's Government Security Program (GSP)

• a program designed to assuage concerns about the security of the OS by allowing governments to review its underlying source code. "We are committed to providing the Chinese government with information that will help them deploy and maintain secure computing infrastructures," said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates who was in Beijing today to announce the pact. "We see this agreement as a significant step forward in Microsoft's relations with the Chinese government." Gates can only hope. After all, the Chinese government has long been quite vocal about its preference for Linux, even going so far as to develop its own version of the operating system, dubbed Red Flag Linux, that it says will eventually replace Windows and Unix on all of its government PCs and servers.

  Pat.
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