[Am-info] Accept that the Net is vulnerable to attack, panel says.

[Fred A. Miller]

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"Microsoft Corp., with its ballyhooed Trustworthy Computing initiative, d=
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particular invective. "Microsoft is producing software that is completely=
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"The reason is there is no liability for producing a shoddy product." If =
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"Microsoft produces software that has three systemic flaws a week and not=
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happens to them," he said, adding that the company simply releases patche=
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and that's that. The Boeing Co., which makes airplanes, "won't use Window=
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problematic software matters."

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