From: "Robert Comer" 

>    Would you feel better if they rushed out the patch in 14 days with
> insufficient regression testing and you scrambled to do windows update and
> found that it trashed at least 2 servers into not booting?   Then you'd
not
> even have a patch to apply.

That is a good point, but perhaps Microsoft should be dedicating a great
deal more resources to these bugs (and finding them themselves rather than
waiting for a hacker to tell them about it)  6 months is just to long...

- Bob Comer



"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:05tm20d8jcq9ehchchg1et4egg3oeh9hj3{at}4ax.com...
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:41:19 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >lets assume that a root level exploit is discovered every 2 months and
that
> >it takes 6 months to get a patch. That means that at any particular
moment
> >in time Microsoft knows of 4 back doors to every windows computer on the
> >planet.
>
>    The bad guys may have even more back doors.  We don't know if Microsoft
> has bad intentions and snoops on your systems.   The bad guys definitely
> are in there poking around.   They had a direct avenue to all your servers
> via HTTPS all this time.
>
>    Would you feel better if they rushed out the patch in 14 days with
> insufficient regression testing and you scrambled to do windows update and
> found that it trashed at least 2 servers into not booting?   Then you'd
not
> even have a patch to apply.
>

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