[funsec] Ouch! Microsoft Spanked on Security Assessment

[nodialtone]

This has to be the funniest...


"While all of the rest of us were sleeping, it appears that the
propeller-heads working on Billy Wonka's Official Microsoft Research and
Development Team have been hard at work creating a crystal ball capable
of foretelling the future. The only problem: it appears that they made
it from rose-colored crystal," Liston notes.

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 16:39, Fergie wrote:
> heheh
> 
> Dawn Kawamoto writes on the C|Net Microsoft Blog:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> That's no problem for Tom Liston of Intelguardians Network Intelligence LLC, a handler on the Interest Storm Center. In a lively posting on the Internet Storm Center, Liston takes Microsoft to task for its assessment of the security threat of the recently discovered Windows Meta file flaw.
> 
> In a posting titled "Oxy-morons," Liston compares Microsoft's security team to Oompa Loompas in the movie Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, err, make that Billy Wonka.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> More here:
> http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6016413.html
> 
> - ferg
> 
> 
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>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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