Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract

Yahoo News ^ | 7/15/2003

[TopDog2]

Nice to see that India and China will have access to the software that insures our homeland "security".

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[harpseal]

Nice to see that India and China will have access to the software that insures our homeland "security".

I wonder homany fanatic Muslims who do exist in india and are included among the many from that nation who work in IT wqill be working on these projects. I wonder how a 10K/yr Indian programmer will react to $1,000,000 US in order to turn over some back doors into these systems. Just wondering since they will not face the penalties tehy would were they caught doing it in the USA.

[Sub-Driver]

waste of taxpayers $$

[bcoffey]

Too bad they didn't read this article first.

[alex]

Boy, we are doomed.

[Eala]

So right. I kept looking up to see if this wasn't really from BSNN news or the Onion.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Let's just hope whatever Microsoft comes up for this contract doesn't have as many security holes in it as Outlook!

[JRandomFreeper]

Look at the bright side. Some script kiddie will be able to keep freepers up to date on the war on terror with inside information.

Does anyone know if Microsloth can meet C-2 standards yet?

/john

[lelio]

help the department to establish a common computing environment
Ah monocultures. That should be worth a PhD thesis one day just like the Irish depending solely on potatoes for food.
I'm going to be on the lookout for the IBOMBYOU virus.

[Salo]

That would most likely be true no matter what OS was chosen. The thing that gets me is MS is notoriously piss-poor when it comes to security matters.

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

[Jay D. Dyson]

Kiss your butts goodbye, boys...we're as good as dead now.

(If there's one OS that's a risk to national security, it's Microsoft.)

-Jay

[SpaceBar]

We are doomed.

[Camel Joe]

What would you suggest, Linux? Open source code is so much more secure, er open?

[Jay D. Dyson]

What would you suggest, Linux? Open source code is so much more secure, er open?

I can tell you're operating under the erroneous assumption that closed-source software is "more secure" than open source. Well, since you believe that way, perhaps you'd care to explain why the most worm-friendly and trojan-friendly OS on Earth is closed source?

For my own part, I'd suggest anything that didn't give us the the abomination of Nimda, Code Red I, Code Red II, the ILOVEYOU virus, the Melissa virus, and a host of other worm- and trojan-sired payloads that STILL impact the 'net to this day.

But since you asked, I'd recommend either OpenBSD, Immunix, or Bastille Linux. Hell, even stock stock Solaris would be a step in the right direction.

All of those are highly secured and, unlike Microsoft's rubbish, once secured, they're still useable.

-Jay

[pyx]

Open source code is so much more secure, er open?

The security via obscurity model went out with the 1970's. Like bubble gum stuck to the bottom of one's shoe, as a component of FUD, it sticks around. Peer reviewed source code has a proven track record.

[ChadGore]

Blue Screen of Al Queda ?

[Camel Joe]

Not saying its more secure, but niether is Linux.

[Redcloak]

What do you want to bomb today? M