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Turns out it's all our fault!

BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
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[url]http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/15/015239[/url]

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  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Figures.

    He probably defines "downloading third-party software" as visiting any website other then MS's.

    :rolleyes:
  • Reaver4kReaver4k Trainee in training
    Better not let my mom see this.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Doesn't it seem like the more money someone has, the more out-of-touch with reality they are...

    :p
  • AkrovahAkrovah Ranger
    For some reason I am unable to view the article. Could someone post the basic gist of what it says?
  • shadow boxershadow boxer The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
    IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill
    Microsoft
    Posted by timothy on Friday October 15, @02:09AM
    from the born-into-a-state-of-sin dept.
    thparker writes "As part of the Media Center release discussed previously, Bill Gates had an interview with USA Today. Best quote: 'Q: Speaking of security, Internet Explorer has had well-publicized holes... Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.' Well now we know -- these problems have all been our own fault." Any counterexamples?

    ~~~~~

    Ah huh... and thats like telling a rape victim they 'asked for it'.
  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    Unless I'm mistaken, Mr. Gates isn't even that involved with Microsoft's operations these days, so WTF are they asking [I]him[/I] for? He never had a damn thing to do with the creation of the OS anyway; all he's ever worried about was profits.:rolleyes:
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    That's what I've always said, you can't let IE to any other site MS Update... so remember to block it from firewall.
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    Thing of it is, he's [i]not wrong[/i]; he's talking about ActiveX plugins, which are indeed responsible for a lot of what goes wrong with IE and other MS software.

    Which just goes to show that ActiveX is a terrible thing for a browser to support in the first place....
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Oh, so you believe that JPEGs are 3rd party programs?

    :rolleyes:

    For years JPEGs have been arround as an image format, but only Microsoft writes code that makes them able to be executed as an application!
  • Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
    yay being 5% of the market share!
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i]
    [B]Oh, so you believe that JPEGs are 3rd party programs?

    :rolleyes:[/B][/QUOTE]

    I said "a lot," not "all." You're taking a single instance and making the claim that since Microsoft's code is directly at fault in that one instance, it must also be true for the general case.

    [i]I'm[/i] saying that ActiveX plugins are a hugely bad idea from a security standpoint, and IE's support for them makes it an easier target, which in my opinion still makes it Microsoft's fault, only not [i]directly[/i] so.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    It makes it MS's fault by poor design rather than poor coding.
    In the case of the JPEG thing, that may have been a result of poor coding. However, as I recall not too long after a similar bug was found in image libraries commonly used on linux and other systems.
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]It makes it MS's fault by poor design rather than poor coding.[/B][/QUOTE]

    My point exactly.
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