On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Michael Watterson wrote:
> Untrue. If you disable various services and only bind TCP/IP.
Fair enough.
Most ordinary users wouldn't have a clue how to do that though..
> A victim of their own popularity...
That's a fallacy. They're a victim of their own design decisions. As
you say:
> and adding the kitchen sink by default to the Network card.
They consistently choose features and expediency over security, yet
they still manage to have people defend them with "victim of
popularity" rubbish when revision **after revision** of their
software is found to have huge security flaws..
regards,
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Fortune:
But hey, at the end of the day, numbers rule.
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