FanJ
May 20th, 2002, 10:08 PM
MS Admits their code is flawed:
https://grc.com/x/news.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.security.software&item=60989&utag=
{QUOTE-> "It was recently reported in eWeek that "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed." ... The follow up from Microsoft is even better: As a result of the flaws, Microsoft has asked the court to allow a "national security" carve-out from the requirement that any code or API's be made public. <-QUOTE}
Quoted from:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2124248&mode=thread&tid=109
eWeek:
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp
https://grc.com/x/news.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.security.software&item=60989&utag=
{QUOTE-> "It was recently reported in eWeek that "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed." ... The follow up from Microsoft is even better: As a result of the flaws, Microsoft has asked the court to allow a "national security" carve-out from the requirement that any code or API's be made public. <-QUOTE}
Quoted from:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2124248&mode=thread&tid=109
eWeek:
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp