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Posted in Free/Libre Software, Microsoft, Security at 10:42 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
“Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system…”
–Dennis Fisher, August 7th, 2008
Summary: Microsoft is trying to redefine what Free/Open Source software means and what it takes for security of software to be assured/audited
THE strategy of Microsoft as of late has been combating Free software by changing what it actually means and then pretending to be it. FOSS Force has a good new article about Microsoft’s completely bogus posturing, intended to battle Free software by pretending that Microsoft’s source code is accessible. We are soon going to show (maybe later today) how Microsoft battled Free/Open Source software in voting, essentially using truly misleading lobbying, entryism, and obfuscation ploys.
As FOSS Force put it, “The Transparency Center concept was meant to allay fears that might cause foreign governments to consider options other than Microsoft (read: Linux and FOSS), by granting them unprecedented access to source code.”
In our latest articles about SSH and Microsoft we countered the claim that Microsoft is ever pursing security. It’s not. Security is not the goal. Read the article from FOSS Force for further details. █
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