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Monday, May 14, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: 5 reasons not to plug security holes

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Monday, May 14, 2007

* 5 reasons not to plug security holes
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* Longhorn to sweep Linux off table

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5 REASONS NOT TO PLUG SECURITY HOLES

Columnist's corner: It seems like a simple enough question. Should
vendors close all security holes? If you're thinking 'why, yes, of
course they ought to," then not so fast. Security guru Roger Grimes
leans toward a 'yes,' but one reader's response was interesting enough
to stir internal debate. This reader, you see, has five main reasons for
waiting to close a noncritical, internally discovered vulnerability.
Budget, to be certain, is a big one. So is the belief that "when a bug
isn't announced, most hackers don't exploit it." True or not, Grimes
concedes that our reader does make points cognitive... ...

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LONGHORN TO SWEEP LINUX OFF TABLE

From the Test Center: Microsoft's Longhorn appears to have been hit with
a mega-dose of growth hormones since the second beta, points out Tom
Yager. "And I mean that in a good way." Minding that, Mr. Yager focuses
not so much on the strengthening of features that Microsoft has done
but, instead, on the new functionality, commencing with PowerShell. Out
of the box security and virtualization are in there, too. "Longhorn will
go where money is no object. And from what I've seen of it in beta 3, it
will sweep Linux off the table in some of those well-moneyed... ...

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