IP: Microsoft Can't Spin This Worm

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:27:28 -0600
>To: farber@linc.cis.upenn.edu
>From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
>Subject: For IP: Microsoft Can't Spin This Worm
>
>By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, >By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Sm@rt Partner
>
>Common lies: This won't hurt a bit. I'll respect you in the morning. The 
>Microsoft security break-in was "not very" damaging.
>
>Come on, Ballmer! That's beyond spin; that ranks right down there with 
>Clinton's "I never had sex with that woman." Cracking Microsoft's internal 
>network is the biggest computer break-in ever.
>
>OK, let's say you were born yesterday and you buy Microsoft President and 
>CEO Steve Ballmer's story that no secrets were laid bare and no real harm 
>was done. So what?
>
>Microsoft wants you to entrust everything on your network to its operating 
>systems, their applications -- and oh yes, its security measures. After 
>all, the ultimate goal of .Net is to replace the existing Internet's 
>infrastructure programs with Microsoft's own software. And now we find 
>that this giant of software companies, the self-proclaimed and de facto 
>leader of desktop software, is vulnerable to a garden-variety worm?
>
>Oh yeah, this really makes me want to put all my business eggs into a 
>Microsoft basket....
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2646049,00.html