[RedBloodedAmerican]

security problems in Windows and UNIX are design problems rather than implementation problems. In fact, none of the viable research efforts toward secure operating systems are compatible with existing systems

And the point of the thread is...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And the point of the thread is...

The point of the thread is that the much ballyhooed Microsoft Common Criteria certification is meaningless. As the article states:

"Knowing that a product has met an EAL4 evaluation -- or even an EAL7 evaluation -- tells you absolutely nothing useful. It means that you can have some amount of confidence that the product meets an unknown set of requirements."

[chilepepper]

Security experts have been saying for years that the the security of the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a rigorous government certification confirming this.

Microsoft crowing about getting the EAL4 rating is pure PR bordering on Fraud. As I've posted before, the first FIREWALLS were Linux. What Microsoft brings to the games are VIRUSES and TROJANS. Don't care how "secure" .NET is supposed to be. This is HERE and this is NOW, and Microsoft costs the community MILLIONS or even BILLIONS cleaning up their messes. So their solution is to "trust them, they have achieved the EAL4 rating and attend Government Security Conferences"...and buy their next revision of the O.S., along with their next version of Office since their new OS requires the new version of Office and guess what? The new Office files are not compatible with the old Office files, so if you plan on upgrading a KEY machine, you will have to upgrade ALL your machines...even if the old ones work perfectly fine.

you get the point... Microsoft is a SCAM