Why Does Microsoft Always Get A Free Pass? Why Does Big Business Reek So Badly?

“Another story that hit my grumpy button is Growth in Internet
crime calls for growth in punishment, in which Mikko Hypponen,
F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer, calls for an “Internetpol” to
deal with online crime. We wouldn’t need an Internetpol if the
so-called security companies would acquire some honesty and
backbone and do their jobs. Instead they have this unhealthy
dependence on the grand champion of enablers of Internet crime,
Microsoft, and other big corporations. Want to get rid of 95% of
online crime overnight? Banish every last Microsoft PC from the
Internet, which will wipe out all the tens of thousands of
Windows-powered botnets, and leave all those Internet crime rings
high and dry, and without an easy way to get back in business.

“You think I’m being mean to poor old F-Secure? You might recall
how they gave Sony a free pass on their CD rootkit–F-Secure knew
about it for a month before Mark Russinovich broke the story. If it
were some foreign kid instead of a big corporation, you can bet
they would have been all over it. To this day they soft-pedal it,
and so do the other security vendors:”

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