[ Thanks to ekoontz for this link.
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“Following the recent Love Letter attack, similar to Melissa but
with far more pervasive and damaging effects, enterprise IT buyers
have risen to demand that Microsoft give more attention to the
safety of large networks. The connectivity of the Internet is
different in kind, not just in degree, from the connectivity of the
LAN, and Microsoft’s architecture has not reflected this
difference, they say. Microsoft has not acknowledged its
responsibility as enterprises migrate to public networks with
worldwide reach….”
“However, Windows and its high degree of integration make
attacks unnecessarily inviting, and IT pros say they believe that
any competent developer could make security features more
controllable and make security information easier to acquire and
understand….”
“Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
the limits of volunteer effort.”