Gee, if this is so, then maybe, just maybe, the gov't shouldn't run M$ products on their sensitive/classified networks for fear that something really terrible might happen. In otherwords, their waiver to the "Orange book" should be unwaived.
Just a thought... Ben On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2124248&mode=thread&tid=109 > > "It was recently reported in eWeek that "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive > told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors > could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in > Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed > it could not be safely disclosed." > The follow up from Microsoft is even better: As a result of the flaws, > Microsoft has asked the court to allow a "national security" carve-out from > the requirement that any code or API's be made public. Microsoft has > therefore taken the position that their code is so bad that it must kept > secret to keep people from being killed by it. Windows - the Pinto of the > 21st century." > > http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp > Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger U.S.
