[4945] in WWW Security List Archive
NYT 1997.03.28: "Security Holes Threaten Microsoft Game Plan"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prentiss Riddle)
Fri Mar 28 18:29:48 1997
From: Prentiss Riddle <riddle@is.rice.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:47:39 -0600 (CST)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Today's New York Times features an article critical of MSIE security:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/032897microsoft.html
| Security Holes Threaten Microsoft Game Plan
|
| By PETER WAYNER
|
| After a two-week barrage of newly discovered security leaks in
| its software, Microsoft's networking group is starting to look
| like it would be more at home in the Washington by the Potomac
| than in the Washington by the Pacific. When they can fix the
| problem, they do, but when they can't, they issue carefully
| worded notices that many users feel are thin attempts to
| misinform. ...
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