Microsoft says "Don't trust Microsoft"

[Andru Luvisi]

>From today's issue of Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram:
  Even Microsoft agrees: don't trust Microsoft:
  <http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml>

An interesting part of the article:
   In a recent financial statement, Microsoft revealed for the first time
   that desktop Windows makes a profit margin of more than 85 percent. To
   put this in personal terms, for every dollar you spent licensing the
   OS last year, Microsoft spent less than 15 cents on all Windows
   packaging, marketing, and, oh yeah, improving the product.
   Setting aside just 1 cent of each dollar would create a fund of $29
   million a year. That'd pay a lot of outside security auditors, don't
   you think?

Also, you might not want to buy Lexmark printers...  they are trying to
use the DMCA to prevent other companies from manufacturing compatible
toner cartridges... http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html

Andru
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Andru Luvisi, Programmer/Analyst

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  		-- Brian W. Kernighan, "RATFOR: A Preprocessor for a
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