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FBI Backs off XP Advice
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Posted by: Tweaker
Tim Mullen's article was a long-winded Microsoft apology. Gibson's web page was its usual anti-Microsoft rant, but his technical information appears to have been correct. The CERT and ISS advisories were technically correct in the nature of the vulnerability. That NIPC may have mis-stated its advisories does not minimize in any way the significance of the vulnerability. NIPC's errors do not alter the fact that the vulnerability arises in part from a conceptual flaw in the design of Microsoft's operating systems--their dogged insistence in activating by default services that are of minimal or no utility on a consumer system; a key point of Gibson's rant was precisely that, and I certainly agree with him.
NIPC's failure to draft a sound security advisory pales in comparison to MIcrosoft's failure to write a secure OS.
Though he received quite a bit of heat for it, it turns out that Tim Mullen's Security Focus article, in which he essentially called the world "wrong", might have had some nuggets of truth after all. Today the National Infrastructure Protection Center, The FBI's top cyber-security unit, told customers and companies to disregard its earlier advice to go beyond the Microsoft recommendations to protect against recent vulnerabilities in Microsoft XP, and that applying the fix from MS was good enough after all. The Associated Press has the story.
The full story here.
Tim Mullen's article
Source: Yahoo News
Posted by: Null Actor
This opens a nice door for MS to sue the government. Make a pretty penny off that... or use it as leverage to get the gov't to back off on the antitrust suit.
Posted by: redwench
cant sue unless there was a misrepresentation of fact. which i gather there was not. even the government is allowed to give its opinion, in fact it does it all the time.
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