>>Did you read the history?
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>>http://www.solutions.fi/index.cgi/news_2001_11_09?lang=eng
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>>it scared me more than the bug itself.
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>>I'm switching to NS today.
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>The story is really scary, and reminds me of the shark scenario - remember, in "Jaws", the local big money man who tries to suppress any information about the shark, because it would jeopardize the tourist harvest.
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Well, this is even worse:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/columns/security/noarch.asp

There is a new term: "Information Anarchy" wich means that you are some kind of criminal if you tell the world about a security risk before MSFT releases a patch for it. If you read the article carefully, at the end there is a menace to those "Information Anarchyst" about a possible lobby to make that a criminal act.

But isn't even more criminal to don't release a security patch many days after being warned of that, having some hacker find it and release a program that takes advantage of it and damage millions of users? Will MSFT take responsability if this happens?

Reagards