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Thursday, May 18, 2000

More Microsoft Security issues -- 10:56 am CST, Update by The Master

I believe we already reported on this one, but ZDNet has a report up entitled "Microsoft's 'Clippy' a Security Nightmare", indicating the issues with the "safe for scripting" labelling on Microsoft's Office Assistant tool.

Rant Warning: Why in the heck hasn't Microsoft learned from their past security mistakes? Microsoft has made this particular mistake at least 3 times in the last 2 years. They have more unchecked buffers than I have brain cells. How hard is it to program in a "secure" manner? As soon as Microsoft pays themselves for their security blunders this crap is going to go away. Otherwise prepare to suffer a lot more of this stuff in the future. Hey, monopolies don't have to care about the customers, and Gross Profit is King.

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