[133529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Leinen)
Sat Dec 11 06:09:54 2010
From: Simon Leinen <simon.leinen@switch.ch>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <B74974B3-BB0E-47C4-8EF9-15D55CA06819@oicr.on.ca> (Greg Whynott's
message of "Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:23:19 -0500")
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:09:35 +0100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Greg Whynott writes:
> i found it funny how M$ started giving away virus/security software
> for its OS. it can't fix the leaky roof, so it includes a roof patch
> kit. (and puts about 10 companies out of business at the same time)
I actually like the new arrangement better, where Microsoft provides the
security software to its OS customers "for free".
The previous setup had third parties (anti-virus vendors) profiting from
the weaknesses in Microsoft's software.
The new arrangement provides better incentives for fixing the security
weaknesses at the source, at least as far as Microsoft is concerned.
Even for third-party providers of buggy software, Microsoft probably
better leverage towards them than the numerous anti-virus vendors.
But then maybe my armchair economics are totally wrong.
--
Simon.
