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Securing Microsoft: The next generation of security threats

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RE: Securing Microsoft: The next generation of security threats
walkerjian@... 5th Dec 2007
yawn - so yesterday! The real trends are comPROMised hardware (like the pun?), subversion of internet infrastructure (DNS is ruined) and kits to facilitate the large scale production of targeted attacks; with data fusion facilitated by offshore call centers - who also do the large scale fuzzing - why not? they are cheap and plentiful.
The root cause is *masterful* large scale manipulation of hackers and apps deliberately made insecure. Why? money of course - from direct sales of products to 'combat' said insecurities, to the 'need' to move onto the next OS that is 'more secure' and from the large scale harvesting of IP from Open Source programmers and others whose naive use of the internet means they regularly give away all trade secrets they have. Not to mention the use of 'anti-terror' laws as an excuse to surveille anyone and basically steal any and all useful IP... Who benefits - ultimately the usual suspects - the MegaCorps and their willing minions - the TLA's (three letter acronyms - work 'em out for yourself) Amazing how the war ON terror has become the war OF terror, and even more amazing how the PLA, RBN and other criminal hacker orgs have become the (unwitting?) pawns of big bizniz...

And we all get it in the neck: from the poor marine stepping on an ied, to the poor student with his next best thing idea lifted before his eyes, to the poor internet user constantly harrassed and stalked by crime gangs that are really doing the bidding of the big corps...

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