James Donald wrote:
Microsoft, as a whole, is incompetent at security. All supposedly secure software coming out of Microsoft varies from poor to worthless. Does anyone doubt it? They take standard well known methods and make well known bungles in applying it and customizing it.
It's hard to believe even Microsoft could be this incompetent. E-mail viruses had been a running joke for years before Microsoft seized the day and made them possible. Now we are seeing calls for what amounts to internet driving licenses and other repressive schemes. Like the bomb plans and pornography hysteria, this is an attack on the Net. The simpletons now think viruses are just something that happens, like somebody getting a cold. The media methodically deceives the public by hunting for scapegoats and propagating Big Lies. Honest media coverage would report on "Microsoft Viruses" and caution people against the use of Microsoft products. They should get at least the same treatment a tire company gets when its products are defective. Typically, when the U.S. media exhibits this behavior it is because the issue has political significance. (And let us not forget the Net is seen as a dangerous competitor.) We should treat this is an organized witch hunt or red scare.
Microsoft produces crap security because most of their customers do not know any better.
Poor lambs.