RE: MBSA and MS's attempts at "security"

From: H C (keydet89@yahoo.com)
Date: 04/10/02 

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:21:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: H C <keydet89@yahoo.com>
To: dadams@scientech.com, focus-ms@securityfocus.com

> For Microsoft to suggest that users should pay for
> tools to fix problems in their software is
insulting.

Agreed. 100%. It's been a blessing and curse for me
personally...as a consultant, specializing in Win32
systems has had the ultimate effect of allowing me to
have a bank account. On the opposite side of the
coin, having to admin MS systems has been a bear, to
say the least.

Having to pay consultants to review an architecture,
gather data and provide an analysis is one thing.
Having to pay a vendor who has purposely built
incredible layers of complexity into their systems and
then charges for tools to identify and fix the
problems that arise is, as you say, insulting.

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