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bigc73542
April 4th, 2004, 11:57 PM
Link to story: http://www.securitypipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18700523

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Microsoft Security Too Tough? Who'd'a Thunk?
By Mitch Wagner

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Unless some current problems are fixed, the final version may actually have too much security. It needs less.

How's that for weird? A Microsoft product in which the security is too stringent. This is not something that you ever expect to find yourself talking about, any more than you expect to talk about Janet Jackson wearing too much clothing.

Microsoft software is currently a major source of the biggest security problems on the Internet today. Microsoft knows it too, and has been scrambling for the last two years to release patches, set up a mechanism for security updates and, in general, fix the problem it created...

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