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Story: Microsoft uncovers new patching plan

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There is always a new security plan or scheme for Microsoft -"all mouth". It is now the kind of publicity that has become a great deal more than irritating.

Though they give grandeouse names to these new schemes, they seem intent on breaking fundamental security principles at every turn while blaming the crackers for all their woes. A bit like going on holliday to a well documented and advertised mosquito infested swamp only to come back blaming mosquitoes for your malaria.

Everything now shall be thrown in to the kernel, browser & all, and in that manner the kernel shall become everything. Much like giving every cracker a master key to all the doors of a city. This is not the type of design that anyone in their right minds should dream of using for systems outside of the realms of real time operations, embedded operations (caution!), or of single task servers (caution!).

I, like many, grow tired of Microsoft and their sterile hype....

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