[luau] NEWS: MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source

[Ben Beeson]

Gee, if this is so, then maybe, just maybe, the gov't shouldn't run M$ 
products on their sensitive/classified networks for fear that something 
really terrible might happen.  In otherwords, their waiver to the "Orange 
book" should be unwaived.

Just a thought...

Ben   



On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/20/2124248&mode=thread&tid=109
>
> "It was recently reported in eWeek that "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive
> told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors
> could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in
> Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed
> it could not be safely disclosed."
> The follow up from Microsoft is even better: As a result of the flaws,
> Microsoft has asked the court to allow a "national security" carve-out from
> the requirement that any code or API's be made public. Microsoft has
> therefore taken the position that their code is so bad that it must kept
> secret to keep people from being killed by it. Windows - the Pinto of the
> 21st century."
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp
> Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger U.S.