Microsoft Dreamin’

Dave Winer posted part of an e-mail that Charles Fitzgerald, a marketing director with Microsoft, sent him in reply to a query about the security model behind the .Net initiative.

The security system is a key part of protecting privacy of data. We think we have a very good and compartmentalized one that mortals can actually use (the weakest link in any security system is humans). And while theoretical browser holes and such make the headlines, the reality is we know how to run secure systems. We have some minor nits in the past (and hopefully we have learned from them), but the reality is we are probably the most attacked set of sites on the Internet. We get attacked tens of thousands of times a month – no better proof.

Minor nits? As a computer science professor I know puts it, Microsoft’s business is selling security holes disguised as applications.

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