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Gates' security push lampooned

Website mock's initiative to make computing as reliable as utilities

Rene Millman, vnunet.com 08 Feb 2002
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A website has been created to mock the attempts by Bill Gates to improve the security of Microsoft's products.

www.trustworthycomputing.com refers surfers onto a Google page.

The name is derived from a Gates email to Microsoft employees about the need to make its products "as available, reliable and secure as electricity, water services and telephony."

Visitors will find that the site contains an extensive archive of news stories covering Microsoft's so-far poor record in trustworthy computing.

See also:

MSN Messenger vulnerable to computer hackers  09 May 2002
A Guide to Windows' Flaws and Vulnerabilities, by Bill Gates  22 Feb 2002
Microsoft must keep its word over 'trustworthy computing'  20 Feb 2002
Microsoft in new security flap  15 Feb 2002
The German Ministry of Defence has denied reports that it will not use Microsoft software in the future.  17 Apr 2001
Antivirus companies have blamed Microsoft for a glitch in their software that has left networks vulnerable to viruses in Mac Office documents.  01 Feb 2001
Microsoft has suffered another breach in security just weeks after hackers infiltrated its systems and allegedly got their hands on the source code for Windows and Microsoft Office.  10 Jan 2001

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