By code, there is nothing that says you have to call the police. But common sense says if those children have not been found immediately, the police should be contacted.
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Sony's motives are reasonable from their point of view, but it's a terrible security hole.Roger Thompson
When macro viruses first came on the scene, most viruses were still written in assembly language or machine code, ... And they were spread by physically transporting infected floppies from one machine to another. In those days, we recommended that you upgrade your anti-virus software every two to three months.
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It's simply impossible for application vendors to develop instant fixes for newly discovered exploits. It takes weeks or months for application vendors to release a patch because it must be thoroughly tested to ensure it doesn't adversely affect the application or any other application that might be installed on the user's system.
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It's not the viruses that you attack, it's the infection method. The problem is that you have 10,000 programmers in Redmond designing for functionality and not security.
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We actually recognize and kill the exploits as they come in. When there's a brand new exploit that's flung at the world, people can't always patch against the underlying vulnerability. Sometimes there is no patch, sometimes you can't patch just because Microsoft wants you to.
Roger Thompson
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